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Food for crime-fighting thought

By Douglas A. Berman

These two recent notable article provide reasons to ponder the possibility that sentencing policies need not, and perhaps should not, be the primary way in which we try to fight crime: From The Economist, this piece describes success in the battle against meth by noting, inter alia, that "[w]hen Safe Streets, a community group, asked pupils to design their own anti-drug posters, many emphasised cosmetic hazards over chemical ones." From The New York Times Magazine, this piece describes efforts to deal with urban violent crime through a disease-treatment philosophy: "Zale Hoddenbach, who works for an organization called CeaseFire, is part of an unusual effort to apply the principles of public health to the brutality of the streets."

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).