Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A hard, punitive glare has become respectable for liberals who in years past were all for the Warren Court's protections of the offender. One index of the respectability of the tougher line: Edward Kennedy, who owns the most liberal voting record in the Senate, is the co-author...
The four classic purposes of imprisonment have been: 1) to deter others from committing crime, 2) to protect society from the criminal, 3) to rehabilitate the criminal, and 4) to give him his "just deserts." Today the first three are not persuasive. The prospect of jail does not seem to...
The reformer's morality has always taught that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force...
Out of this slender tale, which pointedly recalls Theodore Dreiser's novels of the period, Malick constructs a complex web of moral ambiguities. He invites us to sympathize with the criminal Bill and Abby, who have a right to revolt against poverty. But he also arouses our affection for...
In Brooklyn, Mark Feinstein, executive director of Vera Institute's Victim/ Witness Assistance Project, admits that intimidation accounts for some no-shows. But more are due to misunderstanding of the criminal-justice system. Lots of people call for a cop to protect them, but, says Feinstein bluntly: "The large...