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- Title: Retribution: The Central Aim of Punishment.
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 256 KB
Description
When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences were consistently and dramatically too lenient. Though those years marked the ebb tide for the rehabilitative ideal of punishment and indeterminate "zip-to-ten" sentences, only career felons and those convicted of the most serious crimes were candidates for the sentences they justly deserved. The problem was not all theoretical; the chief difficulty was the simple lack of custodial space. With the city jail at Riker's Island bulging at the seams and prison space upstate scarce, the situation could best be described as get-out-of-jail-free for all but the most dangerous offenders. Most people, however, were furious about crime and seemed to have collectively decided that they would do whatever was required to retake the streets, the parks, and the subways, almost all of which were hazardous after dark and some of which continued to be dangerous even during the day. This "get-tough" attitude towards crime matured shortly after Charles Bronson, as Paul Kersey in Death Wish, attempted to single-handedly eliminate crime from New York's streets. (1) Hamstrung by apparently silly rules of constitutional etiquette and bureaucratic sclerosis, the police were eclipsed in the mind of the public by the cold-blooded Everyman, bound only by the law of the jungle and some elusive sense of justice. (2) Ultimately, popular demand required greater sentences for career criminals, a corresponding increase in prison capacities, and more police officers patrolling the streets.
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