• 🏳️‍⚧️ Edward (any)@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    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.”