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"Three-crimes-a-day thief calls for tougher sentencing"

By Douglas A. Berman

The headline of this post is the headline of this article from Canada's Globe and Mail.  Here's part of the story:For about four years, police have been routinely interviewing incarcerated chronic offenders in an attempt to figure out what makes them tick, and also to warn them that investigators are monitoring them.... Deputy Chief Le Pard said that police are "not alone" in seeking longer sentences for chronic offenders. "Our support came from the last place we would expect," he said. That was an anonymous offender who turned himself in on a breaking-and-entering charge and, over the past weekend, had a few choice words about the justice system that he delivered to a member of the chronic-offenders unit, who recorded the conversation on video...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).