Criminologists call this the incapacitation effect.
In the context of this policy, incapacitation is the state in which a person's physical ability is so limited, or perception or judgment is so impaired, that he or she lacks the capacity to make or act on conscious decisions.
This is not to deny the incapacitation effect but to recognise that there may be more powerful factors, such as the economy, that drive the crime rate.
This pattern is consistent with the incapacitation explanation.
In 1960, he told an audience of military doctors, "It may be possible to so dose a man that he would describe an enemy soldier as green-and-purple-striped, cuboid, and nine feet tall, but this is not incapacitation so long as he can still recognize this apparition as an enemy, and can shoot him or impale him on a bayonet".
The NTSB determined that: The probable cause of this accident was incapacitation of the flight crew members as a result of their failure to receive supplemental oxygen following a loss of cabin pressurization, for undetermined reasons.
This includes visitation by a spouse, inmate furloughs to be present during a crisis involving a spouse, escorted trips to attend a spouse's funeral, correspondence with a spouse, and compassionate release or reduction in sentence based on the incapacitation of an inmate's spouse.
Just four months ago, following the incapacitation of Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert was elected Prime Minister of Israel.
A point of emphasis is that the incapacitation of individuals is often socially desirable even when they are potentially deterrable.
"If this means that these parameters do not have automatic safety overrides in place, there is the option of using this weapon to facilitate maiming injuries or punitive incapacitation - and this was at four seconds.
