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The Necessity of Punishment |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / CRIME AND PUNISHMENT |
| Author: Jude P. Dougherty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 4,587 Words, 28,114 Characters |
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Nearly every report or bulletin published by the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, provides material for serious reflection if not cause of alarm. An April 1992 update, reporting on data drawn from 1988, reveals that of prisoners released for the first time from state institutions, those sentenced for homicide served an average term of only forty-two months; those sentenced for rape or sexual assault thirty-six months. Another study surveying the criminal history records in eleven states, covering a period of three years, found that in a sample of prisoners released in 1983, 62.5 percent were rearrested for a new felony or serious misdemeanor.
These studies show that either the penalties attached to homicide and sexual assault are insignificant or that...
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...porary debate is the systematic philosophical support they give to principles derived from and employed by common sense and until recently embodied in Western legal practice. Though radically different in their metaphysical outlooks, their knowledge of unchangeable human nature and its requirements is unsurpassed and remains unchallenged by the data uncovered by contemporary empirical study.
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