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...handled by a judge who is not bound by a deal, however, it is a wholly irrational process that sometimes results in cellmates serving wildly different terms for the same offense. Sentencing is too often "a projection of the value system of the judge," says Columbia's Willard Gaylin. The resulting excessive disparities, he believes, corrode "the basic structural prop of equity that supports our sense of justice." Virtually every expert in the field now believes that the structure and rationale of sentences need extensive overhauling. Certainty is the key word...
...victim to pieces with a machete knife, showed that all nine had been routinely beaten by their parents. Other youths who commit and later talk about the most heinous crimes with peculiar indifference "don't seem to realize they are putting a knife into another human being," says Willard Gaylin, professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University. Gaylin believes this insensibility stems from a lack of identity with anyone else or with the community. "These kids have been so brutalized that there is no guilt for one to work with," said one New York juvenile investigator...
...long forgotten grandparent. The comedy of manners that is Patience with its mild jabs at the military and the intellectual alike seems pale and watered-down today. The genius of G&S, when it appears in the show is only a shadow of the inspiration of Mikado or lolanthe Gaylin and Huessy have exploited every possible moment of great theater in the show and forced Patience to be memorable...
...A.M.A.'s judicial council, find anything wrong with the notices. "Doctors have a civic responsibility," he says, "and it is a decision that the individual doctor has to make as to whether or not he is to call the law." On the other hand, Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, president of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences in Hastings-on-Hudson. N.Y., points out that "Whether or not the article is ethical can be debated, but surely ethics are involved...
...Gaylin, who is also a professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University, points out that if, unlike Smith, the wanted person has a medical condition that is possibly fatal, fear of being turned in could deter him from seeking a doctor's attention. "What if, in the next instance of this," asks Gaylin, "the alleged criminal has a heart condition...