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Crime will always remain with us, just as fires will be with us, or weeds … Those less favored by nature or society are more tempted to violate laws and therefore suffer punishment for doing so more often … There has been a worldwide decline in punishment and therefore of respect of law.1
When Ernest van den Haag’s Punishing Criminals (quoted above) appeared in 1975, it was regarded as a criminological aberration, a radical departure from the prevailing liberal consensus.2 Filled with factual and methodological errors, a curious stylistic mixture of old-fashioned Reader’s Digest moralism and literary pretensions, Punishing Criminals advocates the death penalty, longer sentences, ‘post-punishment incapacitation’, banishment, exile, house arrest and other less imaginative weapons in the ‘war against crime’.
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Ernest van den Haag, Punishing Criminals (New York: Basic Books, 1975).
See, for example, Clarence Schrag’s review of Punishing Criminals in Criminology, 14 (February, 1977) 569–73.
Theodore Chiricos and Gordon Waldo, ‘Socioeconomic Status and Criminal Sentencing: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Proposition’, American Sociological Review, 40 (1975) 753–72.
Travis Hirchi and Michael Hindelang, ‘Intelligence and Delinquency: A Revisionist Review’, American Sociological Review, 42 (1977) 571–87.
Edward Banfield, The Unheavenly City (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972 );
James Q. Wilson, Thinking About Crime ( New York: Vintage, 1977 ).
Judith Wilks and Robert Martinson, ‘Is the Treatment of Criminal Offenders Really Necessary?’, Federal Probation, 40 (March 1976) 3–9.
Marlene Lehtinen, ‘The Value of Life: An Argument for the Death Penalty’, Crime and Delinquency, 23 (July 1977) 237–52.
Jackson Toby, ‘Open-Ended Sentence’, New York Times (15 January 1973 ).
Mao Tse-tung, Four Essays on Philosophy ( Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966 ) 2–3.
Center for Research on Criminal Justice, The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove ( Berkeley: Center for Research on Criminal Justice, 1977 ) 7–9.
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Trends in Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System, 1971–1975 ( Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 ).
Center for National Security Studies, Law and Disorder IV ( Washington, D.C.: Center for National Security Studies, 1976 ) 4.
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States: A Comparison of 1973 and 1974 Findings (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976).
George Kelling et al., The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment ( Washington, D.C.: The Police Foundation, 1974 );
Thomas Pogue, ‘The Effect of Police Expenditures on Crime Rates’, Public Finance Quarterly, 3, 1 (January 1975);
Robert Seidman and Michael Couzens, ‘Getting the Crime Rate Down: Political Pressure and Crime Reporting’, Law and Society Review (Spring 1974 ).
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Prisoners in State and Federal Institutions on December 31, 1975 ( Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 ) 1.
Rosemary C. Sarri, Under Lock and Key: Juveniles in Jails and Detention ( University of Michigan: National Assessment of Juvenile Corrections, 1974 ) 65.
Irwin Silber, ‘Will the “Recovery” End up on the Rocks?’, Guardian (27 October 1976) 4.
Robert B. Carson, ‘Youthful Labor Surplus in Disaccumulationist Capitalism’, Socialist Revolution, 9 (May-June 1972 ) 37, 40.
National Urban League, Black Families in the 1974–1975 Depression ( Washington, D.C.: National Urban League, 1975 ).
Kevin Kelley, ‘Poverty: Worse for Minorities’, Guardian (27 October 1976) 7.
Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century ( New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974 ) 386.
Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. I (New York: International Publishers, 1975 ) 632.
Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer, Punishment and Social Structure ( New York: Russell and Russell, 1967 ).
Harvey Brenner, Estimating the Social Costs of National Economic Policy ( Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 ).
William G. Nagel, ‘On Behalf of a Moratorium on Prison Construction’, Crime and Delinquency, 23, 2 (April 1977) 154–72.
See, for example, Richard Speiglman, ‘Prison Psychiatrists and Drugs: A Case Study’, Crime and Social Justice, 7 (Spring-Summer 1977) 23–39.
See, for example, Helen Witmer and Edith Tuft, The Effectiveness of Delinquency Prevention Programs (Washington, D.C.: Children’s Bureau, 1954);
W. C. Bailey, ‘Correctional Outcome: An Evaluation of 100 Reports’, Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science (1966), originally presented to the California Department of Corrections in 1959.
Milton Rector, ‘Model Sentencing Act’, Crime and Delinquency, 18 (October 1972) 337.
American Friends Service Committee, Struggle for Justice (New York: Hill and Wang, 1971) v.
David Fogel, We Are the Living Proof… ( Cincinnati: W. H. Anderson, 1975 ).
Norval Morris, The Future of Imprisonment ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974 );
Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins, Letter to the President on Crime Control ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977 ).
For an overview of this literature, see Jan Palmer, ‘Economic Analysis of the Deterrent Effect of Punishment: A Review’, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 14 (January 1977) 4–21.
See, for example, Norval Morris, The Future of Imprisonment (University of Chicago Press, 1974 ).
See, for example, Herman and Julia Schwendinger, The Sociologists of the Chair (New York: Basic Books, 1974);
Marlene Dixon, ‘Professionalism in the Social Sciences’, Sociological Inquiry, 46 (1976) 251–62.
Tony Platt, ‘Prospects for a Radical Criminology in the United States’, Crime and Social Justice 1 (Spring-Summer 1974) 2–10.
Nicos Poulantzas, Fascism and Dictatorship ( London: NLB, 1974 ) 241.
Stephen Zelnick, ‘The Incest Theme in “The Great Gatsby”: The False Poetry of Petty Bourgeois Consciousness’, in Norman Rudich (ed.), Weapons of Criticism ( Palo Alto: Ramparts Press, 1976 ) 329.
Marlene Dixon, ‘Proletarian versus Petty Bourgeois Socialism’, Synthesis1 (Summer, 1976) 6.
Isidore Silver, ‘Crime and Conventional Wisdom’, Society 14 (March-April 1977) 9–19.
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Platt, T., Takagi, P. (1981). Intellectuals for Law and Order. In: Platt, T., Takagi, P. (eds) Crime and Social Justice. Critical Criminology series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16588-9_3
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