Journal Editorial Report: State's voters look set to revolt against soft-on crime. Photo: Ethan Swope/Getty Images Tidings of some comfort if not joy from California of all places, where serial ...
Despite claims of reform, India’s criminal laws still rely on arbitrary punishments, criminalising civil matters, and echoing colonial penal codes. Imagine this scenario: Ramu, a farmer from a small ...
Because that changes how you'd punish a violent criminal (if you're a woman). Also, if you're frustrated with your democratically elected government... what alternatives are you open to?
Specifically, they deny the importance of retribution, the notion that the criminal-justice system should impose punishments not just instrumentally—for instance, because it makes the nation safer or ...