Just because engineers say it doesn’t mean it’s true.
UCLA Public Policy Professor Mark Kleiman explained that the title of his new book, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
“That has been the slogan of our criminal justice system for roughly the last 35 years,” Kleiman said. “We are at the limits of what can be done by brute force.”
by James Tate
They didn’t have much trouble
teaching the ape to write poems:
first they strapped him into the chair
then tied his pencil around his hand
(the paper had already been nailed down).
Heaven’s Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
by James B. Kaler
Clear autumn nights in Alaska host the world’s longest running light show. For no longer than ninety minutes at a time, banners of green, purple and red light unfurl across a dark sky flecked with bright stars. The actions that produce the aurora borealis are a less dreamy picture….
by Ted Kooser
In the shoe store storage closet,
the smooth brown eggs of new shoes
lie glowing in boxes, nestled
in christening gowns, their eyelets
already open and staring
but their laces still tightly folded
in dark little fists.
Mark Kleiman argues for a smarter approach to crime. Below, he explains why our current method of crime control is the worst of both worlds, and how applying a few new principles could simultaneously reduce crime and our prison population.
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