Crime and Culture in America
Saney, Parviz
Saney cogently argues that in the absence of adequate support within social and legal norms, a heavy burden is placed upon the criminal justice system, a burden that it cannot carry. Criminal law and the courts fail to provide for either swiftness or certainty of punishment, police have failed to overcome the basic American distrust of authority to gain the comparable support enjoyed by police in other countries, and the penal system operates ...