"Do you punish people according to what they deserve?" Law professor Paul Robinson asked. "Or do you punish people as a means of trying to avoid as much future crime as possible?" About 30 students, ...

Former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon is coming to La Crosse in September to keynote a symposium on the criminal justice system. "Crime & Punishment on Trial: Community Values & the Criminal Justice System" ...

For the past five decades, the American criminal justice system has relied nearly exclusively on punishment as the mechanism for reducing crime and recidivism. The tough on crime era produced ...

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In September 1865, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was living in Wiesbaden, Germany, and couldn’t pay his rent. A string of gambling losses had left him near financial ruin, a familiar circumstance for Dostoyevsky ...