Word: deterence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Classified exhibit). Third, antipersonnel landmines are emplaced over the antimaterial mines to deter the enemy's mine-clearing operations. WAAPM (wide area antipersonnel mine--cluster bomb unit) has been used in this role...
...Harvard Law School professors, James Vorenberg and Alan Dershowitz, say in their affidavits that they are considering using Mills' article in their criminal law classes. If the case goes forward, Dershowitz contends, "it will significantly deter important scholarly and journalistic criticism of the judiciary by attorneys." Disciplining Erdmann, says Vorenberg, "would lead students and young lawyers to believe that it is dangerous to speak out on controversial issues...
Jackson could hold little hope that by confessing he might deter the county from prosecuting him. Moreover, he belonged to a subculture and subscribed to its code that deems fingering for the cops only slightly less offensive than being a cop. In his autobiography in Soledad Brother, Jackson explains proudly how his charging of the policeman he claims fired at him and his confessing to crimes he had not committed took the heat off his partners and friends. Thus, it would seem highly improbable that Jackson confessed in hopes of receiving a state's evidence immunity...
Eighteenth century Quakers introduced the American concept of prisons as a humane alternative to mutilation and other corporal punishments. Today the presumed goals of prisons are various, and sometimes they conflict. The aims are to wreak society's vengeance on a criminal, to deter other men from violating the law, to rehabilitate a prisoner so that he is fit to return to the open world. Yet far too many institutions make no effort to rehabilitate; they are simply zoos for human animals that society wants out of the way. As a result, criminals are thrown into precisely the environment...
...mouth with soap for using a "bad word." Nevertheless, young Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think," and his Grandmother Skinner "made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove." To deter him from a life of crime, Skinner's father conducted him through the county jail and on a summer vacation took him to a lecture with colored slides that depicted life in Sing Sing...