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After years of mindless slumber on the subject, we are suddenly enjoying a modest renaissance of thoughtful books concerning crime and law enforcement.

In recent months, just to pick the obvious examples, we have been favored with Judge Macklin Fleming’s The Price of Perfect Justice, James Q. Wilson’s Thinking about Crime, Ernest van den Haag’s Punishing Criminals, and the admirable work of Robert Martinson on corrections. The common theme of these researches is that the liberal—permissive view of criminal justice has been a dismal failure and needs replacing.

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After years of mindless slumber on the subject, we are suddenly enjoying a modest renaissance of thoughtful books concerning crime and law enforcement.

In recent months, just to pick the obvious examples, we have been favored with Judge Macklin Fleming’s The Price of Perfect Justice, James Q. Wilson’s Thinking about Crime, Ernest van den Haag’s Punishing Criminals, and the admirable work of Robert Martinson on corrections. The common theme of these researches is that the liberal—permissive view of criminal justice has been a dismal failure and needs replacing.