Abstract
Certain subjects, as the old saying goes, concentrate the mind wonderfully. Crime and punishment evoke primeval fears of disorder, ideas of retribution and vengeance, and sadistic impulses. For the social scientist, they epitomize such issues as social control, deviance, and social engineering. Politically, crime and punishment symbolize the sharp divide between the extreme left, which sees crime as a consequence of poverty and inequality, and the conservative right, which believes crime is com? mitted by miscreants who can only be deterred by stiff penal ties. Arguments about social justice, moral re? sponsibility, and the right of the community to discip ine its members go back to the beginning of history, and they remain unresolved in our time.
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