something that drives me crazy is how people believe that cops have much of anything to do with “cutting crime”. they don’t. they react to crime that has already occurred by investigating/pursuing/arresting criminals.
crime prevention comes down to preventing the circumstances which lead people to commit crimes in the first place, and 9 times out of 10, that’s poverty. of course, nobody wants to deal with that…
crime prevention comes down to preventing the circumstances which lead people to commit crimes in the first place
I keep being reminded of the books I’m working on. I guess it just means we have know this stuff for a hundred fucking years.
Mary Stevenson Callcott, Russian Justice, Chapter 5.
Note the recommendation of the Conference in this regard. “In order to insure the effectiveness of judicial work, the judges should endeavor to ascertain the economic and social-political results of the verdict rendered by them, being assisted in this work by public opinion organized around the judicial institutions.” The same body placed a responsibility for prevention of crime on its courts. It was not only a duty to pronounce a sentence on a guilty person, but the tribunal must by means of its favorable position discover the reason for the circumstance of the crime. The recommendation ran, “The court, when trying a case, should not only establish the guilty persons but should also disclose those economic and organizational defects and shortcomings which create a favorable atmosphere for criminal actions, signalizing such circumstances to the attention of the Party and Soviet organs by means of special riders. The results of such signalizing should be checked up from time to time.”
what i meant, other than lamenting the failed promises of the Soviet State, is, like you, we’ve known this shit for a long time but have yet to apply it in any meaningful way to our societies.
something that drives me crazy is how people believe that cops have much of anything to do with “cutting crime”. they don’t. they react to crime that has already occurred by investigating/pursuing/arresting criminals.
crime prevention comes down to preventing the circumstances which lead people to commit crimes in the first place, and 9 times out of 10, that’s poverty. of course, nobody wants to deal with that…
I keep being reminded of the books I’m working on. I guess it just means we have know this stuff for a hundred fucking years.
Mary Stevenson Callcott, Russian Justice, Chapter 5.
yeah, lots of “shoulds” in that quote…
Yes… And what do you mean by that?
what i meant, other than lamenting the failed promises of the Soviet State, is, like you, we’ve known this shit for a long time but have yet to apply it in any meaningful way to our societies.
Thanks. I think I got it.
what are you working on, btw?
I can answer that in two ways:
I take PDFs of scans of print books and turn them into epubs (ebooks), and uploading them to my website
Or, as is implied from my first comment, I am working on Russian Justice, turning it into an epub.
oh, i see. how interesting.
for a moment, it sounded as though you might be writing a book, so i thought i’d ask.