Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placate a public demanding tough sentences, often make little distinction among crimes; for example, judges are forced to lock up shoplifters and forgers along with murderers and armed robbers. Contends Norman Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: "The knee-jerk response of many legislators in passing harsher sentencing statutes threatens to overwhelm our corrections system...
...harsher criticism that some faculty level is that of conscious discrimination on the part of one or more department, members during closed deliberations. Skocpol's case is the example cited most often, perhaps because alone among the candidates denied tenure, she utilized the University's grievance procedure, but some professors allude to other cases in which they say sexual discrimination may have played a role. For example, one professor in the Fine Arts Department notes that the department has chosen men to fill four of its last five tenured professorships over the last decade, although the pool of qualified personnel...
...need of repair. One reform is suggested by Osborn Elliott, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Let no editor "get off the hook by oversubmitting" let editors narrow their own entries, "and face their own internal politics more directly." For the Washington Post, Ombudsman Green had a harsher recommendation: "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous . . .Maybe the Post should consider not entering contests...
...reform our criminal justice system and get control of violent crime without becoming too severe, then let's do so. But if all our reforms prove futile, then we will have to resort to harsher measures. Otherwise the American people out of desperation will eventually have to sacrifice their rights and liberties for the safety and security of an authoritarian state...
...speech on crime's "reign of terror" at the American Bar Association convention [Feb. 23] was characteristically wishy-washy. At the same time that he cited the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences, he told us the war on crime "will not be won simply by harsher sentences...