SWIFT, CERTAIN, AND FAIR PUNISHMENT: 24/7 SOBRIETY AND HOPE: CREATIVE APPROACHES TO ALCOHOL- AND ILLICIT DRUG-USING OFFENDERS.
Criminologists believe that the certain and swift imposition of a mild punishment has a greater deterrent effect than the remote and indefinite application of a severe punishment. Judges in South Dakota and Hawaii independently put that theory to the test and created innovative strategies to deal wi...
| Published in: | Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 39 - 95 |
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Northwestern University
Winter2016
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