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...court reform. Contrary to public perception, most criminals end up getting caught; the courts, perhaps inexplicably, do a decent job of freeing the innocent and convicting and punishing the guilty. Such reforms as repeal of the exclusionary rule, prohibition of plea bargaining, mandatory prison terms, or standardized sentences are either harmful or irrelevant. What is needed is more attention to the appearance of justice--what Willard Hurst called "the substantive importance of procedure." The courts "will have to become models of fairness and due process--living demonstrations that justice is possible." The public--and the criminals--must believe that justice...
Court reform is perhaps most urgently needed in the juvenile court system--the education of criminals begins very early. Juvenile courts now either overreact or underreact; the first mars children for life with prison terms, the second gives them a sense that there are no consequences for antisocial acts. The juvenile courts need more of a choice than jail or a slap on the wrists: some means of instilling a notion of just dessert in young criminals without resorting to homeopathic incarceration...
...white minority of 240,000 who rule over Rhodesia--and over the nearly six million Africans who reside within its boundaries--have beaten the odds for 13 years, and they are doing their darndest to stay in power. True, Rhodesia is closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while longer, both by holding off the guerrilla...
Cavileer adds: "I don't think the participants get as much out of it as they used to either. Sometimes I wonder whether it's worth all the effort to go out recruiting. Coach Harlow once said to me that it would bemore fun if we just took the boys who came to the college who really wanted to play ball...
...that are non-violent, and that would constitute a strong pressure, are withdrawal of investment and loan money from South Africa, and recall of the ambassador. It will take something fairly dramatic, like withdrawal of economic and diplomatic support, to get it through to them, finally, that they either have to start negotiating with black leaders or face the whole thing on their...