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JAIL: WHO GOES, FOR HOW LONG?: REVIEW

Anderson, David C ; David C. Anderson is on the editorial board of The New York Times

New York Times, 1985

New York, N.Y: New York Times Company

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    JAIL: WHO GOES, FOR HOW LONG?: REVIEW
  • Autor: Anderson, David C ; David C. Anderson is on the editorial board of The New York Times
  • Assuntos: ANDERSON, DAVID C ; Currie, Elliott ; HIRSCH, ANDREW VON ; von Hirsch, Andrew
  • É parte de: New York Times, 1985
  • Descrição: IN ''Confronting Crime,'' [Elliott Currie] fails to offer practical answers to America's crime problem, but his attempt adds ballast to a criminal-justice debate far too preoccupied with prison as the only response to crime. It is, Mr. Currie makes clear, a response that prevails in the absence of anything better. ''There is a pervasive sense,'' he writes, ''that older ways of thinking about crime have lost their usefulness and credibility; but no convincing alternatives have come forward to take their place.'' Mr. Currie, who has taught both criminology and sociology, suggests that the most basic premise of the dangerous-offenders strategy may also be flawed. ''Although the supposedly 'tiny' hard-core delinquent group is indeed only a fraction of the population, it is hardly tiny,'' he notes. Marvin Wolfgang and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania found that 7.5 percent of all the boys born in Philadelphia in 1958 became chronic delinquents. ''In absolute numbers,'' Mr. Currie writes, ''this meant that Philadelphia's parents were providing over 1,000 new, chronically delinquent boys to scourge that beleaguered city's streets each year.'' Adding girls brings the number to 1,200. Extrapolating the Philadelphia experience nationally means 180,000 new delinquents a year. ''Taking this road will not be easy,'' he warns, ''for it means not only interfering with the prerogatives of those who benefit from our current social and economic arrangements, but also challenging some of the deepest cultural and political tendencies of contemporary American life.''
  • Editor: New York, N.Y: New York Times Company
  • Idioma: Inglês
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