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...Everyone's talking about complicated policy issues," he said. "I think that Western governments should react to [The Bosnian conflict] and punish [the Serbs]. [The shelling] deserves a very firm military response from theWest, which includes lifting the arms embargo...
...they deal with security." Another shoplifter declares that the Coop has "one of the most inept security systems in the world." Yet another petty thief uses the Coop's laxity to rationalize her crimes. "I do it partly for them [the Coop]... It's sort of like Nietzsche--'Punish the weak'...They really should crack down...
Furthermore, Knowles should put a stop to the witch-hunt atmosphere that currently pervades the archaeology wing. That witch-hunt to identify and presumably punish van der Merwe's accusers, is--almost unbelievably--acknowledged by the senior professors conducting it. As Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky told The Crimson, "People here have done a lot of work figuring out who has spoken to you. We know who is talking...
...UPSHOT IS THAT WHILE JAILS and prisons still incapacitate, incarcerate and punish, they no longer -- if they ever did -- deter crime. Indeed, in many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent. "Their father's been in prison, their brother's been in prison," says Lieut. Robert Losack, 30, who has served as a Texas prison guard for nine years. "It's socially acceptable; it's part of growing up." Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status. They also pose a greater threat. "Prison culture becomes...
Such results have convinced people who spend most of their waking hours in and around prisons -- commissioners, wardens, guards, not to mention inmates -- that if prisons only punish, and offer no inducements or opportunities for rehabilitation, they simply produce tougher criminals. When prisoners have no constructive way to spend their time, they often fill the hours building a reservoir of resentment, not to mention a grab bag of criminal tricks, that -- count on it -- they will take back to the streets. "All we do," says Dr. John May, one of the 10 doctors who service the 9,000 inmates...