Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact

Nancy Merritt ; Terry Fain ; Susan Turner

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Criminal Law;    Pacific States;    Criminal Justice;    Children and Families;    Sentencing;    Oregon;    Crime;    Corrections;    Public Safety;    Prison Reform;    Adolescents;   

ISBN  :  0-8330-3578-9
RP-ID  :  TR-142-NIJ

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

In 1994, Oregon voters passed Measure 11, which imposed long mandatory prison terms for 16 designated violent and sex-related offenses, prohibited “earned time,” and provided for mandatory waiver of youthful offenders to adult court. Proponents of the measure felt that it would improve public safety by both deterring future criminal behavior and increasing the length of time that serious felons spend in prison, while opponents believed that it would adversely affect criminal justice system operations and reduce system integrity.