Reddit reviews All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
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I spent much more time with families who have lost loved ones to second chance offenders than with prisoners and have written and published about them as well. That's where my true interests are.
The fallacy in your thinking is the proposition that locking up first time offenders forever makes communities safer. See Fox Butterfield's All God's Children for a carefully detailed historical analysis of the consequences of policies based on severe punishment.
The terrible suffering of victims' families and their emotional call for vengeance doesn't provide a sound basis for public policy. Unfortunately, punish the offenders forever and the victims' families suffer forever. It is far better to relieve the families pain and make communities safer. "Tough on crime" policies do neither.
I think he's more the point guard/defense attorney type than the center/district attorney type.
Juveniles should not be tried as adults, imo. It's the shame of the nation (or one of them). All Hugh Carey's fault^1 for pandering, too.
^1 Obviously it's not that simple. I mostly mentioned it because although I haven't yet read this, I thought that either you would have (in which case I'd want to know what you thought) or you'd be interested to know about it (in which case it bore mentioning.)
Because that's one of your interests, right? [ETA: Meaning juvenile sentencing; the book includes but is more expansive than that, obvs. It's supposed to be excellent, though. I've been meaning to read forever.]