Calculating Injustice: The Fixation on Punishment as Crime Control
A shift in emphasis of punishment from rehabilitation to obedience reflects the idea that the criminal justice system can never achieve its purposes by considering the individual circumstances of those within it; thus, it has begun to sanction punishments that are ever more tenuously linked to the o...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Harvard civil rights-civil liberties law review 1992-07, Vol.27 (2), p.575 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A shift in emphasis of punishment from rehabilitation to obedience reflects the idea that the criminal justice system can never achieve its purposes by considering the individual circumstances of those within it; thus, it has begun to sanction punishments that are ever more tenuously linked to the offender's culpability. The commonalities in the federal statutes, regulations, bills and judicial opinions that make up this trend in criminal punishment are exposed and analyzed. |
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| ISSN: | 0017-8039 1943-5061 |