Word: norval
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...short, acknowledged Clarke, the Alaska ban did not change the status quo all that much, and the merits of what it did change are open to debate. But the Alaska experience does underscore a blunt reality of criminal justice. As Chicago Law School Dean Norval Morris puts it, "Most defendants plead guilty because they are guilty." And if that is so, say Morris and others, perhaps the real question is not so much whether plea bargaining deprives the accused of his right to a jury trial, but whether he gets a fair and rational sentence...
...prison terms, from prosecutors to judges to parole boards. Federal Judge Marvin Frankel, an articulate advocate of sentencing review, tells of a colleague who bragged about adding a fifth year to a convict's sentence simply because he spoke disrespectfully in court. Says University of Chicago Law Dean Norval Morris, another opponent of indeterminate sentences: "Present practices are arbitrary, discriminatory and unprincipled...
While the rule was not exactly defined, it suggested that providing a passive opportunity for crime was O.K., while actively fomenting the crime probably was not. "That line between catching criminals and provoking crime was a simple principle," says University of Chicago Law Dean Norval Morris. "Now it has been blurred." Three months ago, the Burger court held by a 5-to-3 vote that if a person has a "predisposition" to commit a crime, it will be almost impossible for him to claim entrapment successfully, no matter how much inducement to the crime the Government has provided. Under...
...system and what it was achieving, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Norman Carlson decided in 1972 that Butner, then in the planning stage, would be designed for new rehabilitation techniques. After bitter criticism scuttled early ideas of using transactional analysis and behavior modification, Carlson turned to the theories of Norval Morris, 52, a New Zealand-born criminal-law professor (and now dean) at the University of Chicago Law School...
...tawdry sections of Chicago have remained high over the decades, though inhabited at different times by Swedes, Poles, Germans, Italians, Syrians and blacks. Says Sociologist Lloyd Ohlin: "Slums of the big cities have always been the main source of recruitment to street crime, no matter who lived there." Says Norval Morris: "It is trite but it remains true that the main causes of crime are social and economic. The question arises whether people really care. The solutions are so obvious. It's almost as if America wished for a high crime rate...