Deterrence can work, but it’s a more complex issue than just greater punishment and police presence, such as we have seen in ...

In my 'A Deterrence Theory of Punishment', I argued that a deterrence system of punishment can avoid the charge that it illegitimately uses offenders if its punishments are carried out ...

We incarcerate criminals for four reasons: incapacitation, rehabilitation, deterrence, and vengeance. Each of the four is believed to serve a social function. Incapacitation protects society from the ...

In this Article, Professor Kahan identifies the political and moral economies of deterrence theory in legal discourse. Drawing on an extensive social science literature, he shows that deterrence ...

The Roman Catholic Church’s current opposition to the death penalty is inconsistent with historical church teaching about ...

America incarcerates more people for longer periods of time than any other country in the world. Why? To answer that question it is imperative to determine how men and women end up in jail and prison.

The shooting of a police officer is an event that can shake citizens of a community to their very core. The shooting of Scranton Police detective is a tragedy, and his recovery appears to be a long ...

Attorney General William Barr announced last week that the federal government would resume the imposition of capital punishment, directing the Acting Director of the Bureau of Prisons to schedule ...

Like all humans, judges are susceptible to fads. Anger management became a popular feature of American probationary sentences in the 1980s. A few years ago it was teen courts, then drug courts. The ...

The United States and its allies are facing a crisis of deterrence. China is menacing Philippine vessels in the South China Sea and possibly readying its military for an invasion of Taiwan. Russia ...

In the international debate over nuclear disarmament, one long-running bone of contention is the effectiveness of nuclear deterrence—that is, using the threat of nuclear retaliation to prevent another ...