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Book Reviews, Frank J. Remington, George B. Tindall
Book Reviews, Frank J. Remington, George B. Tindall
Vanderbilt Law Review
Fair and Certain Punishment
Review by Frank J. Remington
Punishing Criminals. By Ernest van den Haag. New York: BasicBooks, Inc., 1975. Thinking About Crime. By James Q. Wilson. New York: BasicBooks, Inc., 1975.
Times change. So also do opinions about important social problems such as crime and government's response to crime. The books of both van den Haag and Wilson reflect changing opinions on crime and on what to do about crime. Both urge that we abandon the view that social conditions are an important cause of crime and that an improvement in social conditions will reduce crime substantially.Both urge …