2000 National Political Awareness Test: on Crime

Steven Driehaus: Moratorium on the death penalty

Driehaus indicates he supports the following principles concerning crime.
• Support a moratorium on the death penalty.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Dan Mongiardo: Support death penalty; ban racial profiling

Principles which Mongiardo supports regarding crime:
• Support the use of the death penalty in Kentucky.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Lower the blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.

Dan Mongiardo: No parole for repeat offenders

Principles which Mongiardo supports regarding crime:
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.

Brian Bilbray: Impose truth in sentencing; build more prisons

Indicate which principles you support to address crime.
• Broaden the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
• Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
• Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
• Provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills.
• Provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
• Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.

Charles Djou: More prisons; less parole; more penalties; less profiling

Djou indicated support for the following principles to address crime:
• Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
• Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Implement the death penalty in Hawaii.
• Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

Corey Stapleton: Support death penalty; private prisons; sex offense registry

Stapleton indicates support for the following principles to address crime.
• Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
• Support the use of the death penalty.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational & job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Dennis Daugaard: End parole for repeat violent offenders

Daugaard indicates he supports the following principles to address crime:
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.

Gabby Giffords: Support alternative sentencing; provide inmates job skills

Indicate which principles you support to address crime.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational & job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

Jim Martin: Supports lethal injection as the method of execution

Martin supports the following principles concerning crime:
• Implement lethal injection as the method of execution in Georgia.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

Jim Martin: Supports alternative sentencing for non-violent offenders

Martin supports the following principles concerning crime:
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Jon Bruning: End parole for repeat violent offenders

Bruning supports the following principles to address crime:
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational & job-related skills.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Jon Bruning: Supports death penalty by lethal injection in Nebraska

Bruning supports the following principles to address crime:
• Support the use of the death penalty in Nebraska.
• Implement lethal injection as Nebraska's method of execution.
• Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

Jon Corzine: Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals

Indicate which principles you support to address crime.
• Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
• Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.

Joyce Beatty: Moratorium on the death penalty

Beatty indicates support of the following principles regarding crime.
• Support a moratorium on the death penalty.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
• Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.

Joyce Beatty: End parole for repeat violent offenders

Beatty indicates support of the following principles regarding crime.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Mike Bishop: Supports death penalty; opposes parole for repeat offenders

Bishop indicates support of the following principles to address crime.
• Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Implement the death penalty in Michigan.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Mike Bost: Supports death penalty & more prisons

Bost indicates support of the following principles to address crime.
• Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Support the use of the death penalty in Illinois.
• Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
• Support job training for at-risk youth.
• Increase funding for DNA evidence testing.

Scott Howell: Truth in sentencing: serve full sentences with no parole

Howell indicated support of the following principles on crime:
• Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
• Increase funding for community policing programs.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
• Provide block grants to states for implementation of programs to combat juvenile crime.
• Impose harsher penalties for youths convicted of violent offenses.
• Support the use of "boot camps" as alternative sentencing for juvenile offenders.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Scott Howell: Broaden the use of the death penalty

Howell indicated support of the following principles on crime:
• Broaden the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.

George Allen: Supports the death penalty

Jon Corzine: Supports mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws

AGREES with the following statements:
• Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
• Impose truth in sentencing for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.

Jon Corzine: Opposes the death penalty

DISAGREES: Support capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.

Howard Mills: Pro-death penalty; build more prisons

Mills supports the following principles regarding crime:
• Support the use of the death penalty in New York.
• Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Lower the blood alcohol content limit defining drunk driving.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.

Howard Mills: End parole for repeat violent offenders

Mills supports the following principles regarding crime:
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

David McReynolds: Eliminate the death penalty

Alan Keyes: Stricter penalties; truth in sentencing

Keyes supports the following principles concerning crime:
• Impose stricter penalties for violent felons.
• Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.

Gary Bauer: Stricter penalties; more prisons; less parole

Bauer supports the following principles concerning crime:
• Impose stricter penalties for violent felons
• Increase spending to build more federal prisons
• Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational & job-related skills
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug & alcohol addiction treatment
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.

Harry Browne: No federal law enforcement; let states handle crime

Howard Phillips: Stricter prosecutions for juveniles

Phillips supports the following principles regarding juvenile crime:
• Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
• Impose harsher penalties for youths convicted of violent offenses.

John Hagelin: More prison rehabilitation; address root causes of crime

Hagelin supports the following principles regarding crime:
• Programs to provide prison inmates with job skills
• Programs to provide prison inmates with drug & alcohol treatment
• Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
• Hagelin says he would “support systematic, scientifically proven programs to reduce stress in the individual and throughout society-thus eliminating the root cause of crime-in addition to effective prison rehabilitation.”

John McCain: More death penalty; stricter sentencing

McCain supports the following principles regarding crime:
• Broaden use of the death penalty
• Impose stricter penalties for violent felons
• Increase spending to build more federal prisons
• Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.

John McCain: More community policing; enough hate crime laws

John McCain: Prosecute youths as adults, but separately; explore sources

McCain supports the following principles regarding juvenile crime:
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
• Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
• Increase funding for local Boys & Girls Clubs and other independent organizations in communities with at-risk youth.
• Provide block grants to states for implementation of programs to combat juvenile crime.
• Impose harsher penalties for youths convicted of violent offenses.
• McCain points out that he “helped create the youth violence commission to develop remedies to youth violence.”
• Support the use of “boot camps” as alternative sentencing for juvenile offenders.
• Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
• McCain says, “Juvenile offenders should be kept separate from adult offenders and receive the appropriate remedial and rehabilitation services.” Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test Jan 13, 2000

  Orrin Hatch: Strict penalties; more prisons; status quo on death penalty

  Hatch supports the following principles regarding crime:
  • Would not eliminate the use of the death penalty; but would not broaden its use either.
  • Impose stricter penalties for violent felons.
  • Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
  • Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
  • Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
  • Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
  • Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
  • Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
  • Hatch says, “Maintain and increase funds for law enforcement block grants.”
  Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test Jan 13, 2000

  Steve Forbes: Stricter penalties, more prisons, longer sentences

  Forbes supports the following principles regarding crime:
  • Broaden the use of the death penalty for federal crimes
  • Impose stricter penalties for violent felons
  • Increase spending to build more federal prisons
  • Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences
  • Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills
  • Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
  Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test Jan 13, 2000

  Lincoln Chafee: Focus on inmate skills & treatment

  Supports the following principles concerning crime:
  • Support programs to provide prison inmates with job-related skills.
  • Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
  • Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
  • Increase funding for community policing programs.
  • Require that crimes based on gender & sexual orientation be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
  • Support programs that provide job training for at-risk youth.
  Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test Jan 1, 2000

  The above quotations are from Election 2000 National Political Awareness Test, by Project Vote Smart. Click here for definitions & background information on Crime. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Harry Browne on Crime. Click here for more quotes by John McCain on Crime.
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