The Supreme Court has emphasised the utility of deterrent punishment in criminal cases, stating that such punishment maintains balance with the gravity of the wrong done by a person and also makes an ...

Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of Limerick, Ireland research. The study, published in the Southern Economic ...

In reference to the Sept. 28 letter, "New Orleans wastes money on jails," the writer makes two erroneous claims: New Orleans engages in mass incarceration and putting people in jail does not keep ...

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 ...