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Wilson deals with the problem like a political scientist: through a cost-benefit analysis of the criminal's "decision to become involved in crime." He presumes that the criminal is rational enough to weigh the potential costs of an illegal act and will base his actions on the risk he...
Theories of deterrence have some relevance to a small class of rational law breakers, and certain violent offenders do have to be isolated. Nonetheless, shallow conclusions will only lead to greater inequities, and increasingly prisons will become cosmetics merely hiding society's deeper flaws. A frightened, receptive audience and a...
Hard Type. Though Gilmore was twice confined in an Oregon state mental hospital, there seemed to be little question of his legal sanity and his perverse sincerity. A Utah prison psychiatrist pronounced him "intelligent, very rational and without any indication of mental illness." The Texas-born Gilmore was first sent...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, who frequently argues civil liberty cases, said Friday he believes "every rational human being should have the right to commit suicide." However, he said he is "unalterably opposed to state-run capital punishment."
Johnson says the Gallo boycott is based on rational reasoning and is a response to Gallo's cooperation with the Teamsters.