If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better. According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing of
Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in America Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied
The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, whi
The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of America's
Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was