How does John Wayne Gacy connect to our terms well I’m going to start with the most obvious being how deterrence or criminal sentencing charges not effectively deterring a criminal. John Wayne gacy got charged and sent to prison for a crime 2 years of his life thrown away for a sexual assault of a young boy.

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John Wayne gacys case is a pretty well known one so I won’t go into to much detail, however we was a murder around 1960-70’s he had previous charges of sexual assaults on young boys, however at the time he was the owner of 3 KFC a well made man they saw it and he got off with very little time for these crimes and went on to murder close to 33 known victims.

How does John Wayne Gacy connect to our terms well I’m going to start with the most obvious being how deterrence or criminal sentencing charges not effectively deterring a criminal. John Wayne gacy got charged and sent to prison for a crime 2 years of his life thrown away for a sexual assault of a young boy. Some could say its because he was just disturbed however he did infact not only go on to commit more sexual assaults. His criminal sentence ended and he went on to murder 33 people. he ended up being a reoffender just like almost 50% of people entering the prison system in the first place. I think this can also fit into the idea that prison should be geared more to rehabilitation because if he had maybe help. As I think it is an agreeable fact pedophiles and rapists are not just regular people committing crimes. they need serious help and rehabilitation to ensure the youth and rest of community wouldn’t have to worry about men like this. instead of prison time these further crimes could have been prevented

The next point I will talk about is his prison sentencing themselves and the idea of Racialized people having harsher sentances and less likely to get parole. John Wayne when first charged and convicted was supposed to face almost 10 years in prison for the rape of a 15 year old boy. However, He seemingly turned his life around and by just getting a few extra high school credits and being a seemingly “good prisoner” he was allowed out of prison after 2 years 1/4 of his original sentence. Where as we know and can look at anyone else facing the same crimes from a marginalized group they would have probably gotten not only a heavier sentence but, not been allowed to even see parole in the first place because they would be seen as higher risk.

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