Law in Contemporary Society

View   r25  >  r24  ...
JustinColannino-SecondPaper 25 - 11 May 2008 - Main.JustinColannino
Line: 1 to 1
 
META TOPICPARENT name="WebPreferences"
UNDER REVISION. To see the paper as submitted, including all of Eben's comments, click here.
Line: 68 to 68
 
  • I don't understand this assertion. If the legislature elected by the public thinks that some crime deserves a punishment of imprisonment, what is the basis for holding that it does not, or that jail conditions are relevant to why it does not? Apparently you have an argument in mind, but I cannot find out what it is from the text.
Added:
>
>
  • The idea here was that courts could distinguish between the degree of punishment for detention and the degree of punishment for detention in terrible conditions. Thus, for some classes of crime it would be possible that detention would be acceptable, but detention in jails as they are would be unacceptable. Regardless, the idea is not very important to this paper, has some holes, and will likely be cut when I figure out how to reformat my middle section.
 

References

[1] Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen,

Revision 25r25 - 11 May 2008 - 13:56:10 - JustinColannino
Revision 24r24 - 09 May 2008 - 02:42:27 - JustinColannino
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
Syndicate this site RSSATOM