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get-tough initiatives  

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  • Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, legislators began to take a “get-tough” approach to crime control in the United States, a strategy that stresses harsh punishment for criminal offenses. Get-tough initiatives focus on deterrence, incapacitation, and retribution as primary goals of criminal sentencing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Get-Tough Initiatives]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-R092JZ3W-9

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