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The Crime Conundrum

Essays On Criminal Justice
By:Lawrence M Friedman; George Fisher
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367306540
eText ISBN:9781000315691
Edition:1
Copyright:1998
Format:Reflowable

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There may be areas of human life in which people have profited from understanding history, but criminal justice is definitely not one of them. In this field, each generation seems to undo the last generation's reforms. Each generation resurrects old failures and trots them out as new. A previous generation hailed indeterminate sentencing as a great