We hope this international contribution may stimulate some of you to write to us.There is no doubt that currently fashion able criminological views work to increase crime by reducing the cost to the criminal. Wall Street Journal Editorial, March 6, 1979
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For an excellent analysis of the morality of the death penalty see Berns, Walter.For Capital Punishment: Crime and the Morality of the Death Penalty , New York: Basic Books, 1979.
