Word: blumstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is only part of the answer, says Carnegie-Mellon University Professor Alfred Blumstein. The full explanation, he says, is "demographics plus toughness." Many criminal-justice experts are disturbed by the rigid form that the new toughness has taken. Since the mid-1970s nearly all states have passed some form of mandatory sentencing legislation-that is, laws stipulating that offenders convicted of certain crimes, or of a succession of crimes, must go to prison. In New York, for instance, the prisoner explosion is partly the result of a 1978 law requiring judges to imprison all violent-felony offenders...
Last week, as the martial law regime decreed the biggest consumer price hikes in Poland's postwar history and Jaruzelski prepared to outline his future programs before parliament, Solidarity activists operating abroad angrily defended the union from charges of extremism. Said Severin Blumstein, 35, a member of a Paris-based group of Solidarity exiles: "It's amazing! To have democratic countries question the right of other countries to that very same democracy they take for granted strikes me as a cynical viewpoint...