Most of a nation on probation?

[Sampo Syreeni]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:

>The problem is not that parole exists--be thankful that it does.  The
>problem is the criminalization of every area of life.

But just as Tim argues, the latter always involves cost-effectiveness too.
All in all, constitutions should have adequate protections against black
letter law and, more generally, "free" criminalization of any conduct. There
should always be a sufficient, predictable cost associated with putting
people away to guard against criminalization for convenience, prudence and
political gain only.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy at iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front