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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 …
The Florida Bar V. Thomson, 310 So. 2d 300 (Fla. 1975), Douglas A. Shropshire
The Florida Bar V. Thomson, 310 So. 2d 300 (Fla. 1975), Douglas A. Shropshire
Florida State University Law Review
Attorney Discipline- SUSPENDED LAWYER MAY TAKE EMPLOYMENT AS A LAW CLERK.
Book Review, G. S. Friedman
Book Review, G. S. Friedman
Cleveland State Law Review
This entry reviews Prisons: Houses of Darkness by Leonard Orland. The book presents a short history on prisons and their development while also noting the major weaknesses of prisons today. Orland closes this text by suggesting possible reforms to the penal system. He writes that eliminating indeterminate sentences and capping sentences to five years would help to improve America's prison system.
The Allocation Of Prosecution: An Economic Analysis, Michigan Law Review
The Allocation Of Prosecution: An Economic Analysis, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note uses economic theory to reassess the division of prosecutorial tasks between victims and the government for offenses other than victimless offenses. It attempts to answer in a general manner questions such as why the prosecutor should differ from offense to offense and where ,the line should be drawn between governmental and individual prosecution. Work done in the areas of welfare economics and public finance concerning the effectiveness of government and the private sector in providing different sorts of goods is drawn upon heavily. This Note views prosecution as an economic good and a victim's prosecution of an offender …