No. 282 / August 1996

Rush to punishment
Criminal justice on trial

  • Editors letter

  • Rush to punishment
    Richard Swift investigates who profits and who pays in a criminal-justice system out of control.

  • Crime and civilization
    Interview with Norwegian prison critic Nils Christie on the dynamic of growth that underlies the population explosion behind bars.
  • Death Row Inmate
    A poem by Kirk Anderson.

  • Naughty! Naughty!
    Trevor Turner dissects our lust for punishment that starts in childhood and can end on death row.

  • How do you spell 'justice'?
    The term 'rough justice' takes on new meaning on the streets and in the prisons of Venezuela. Christina Hoag reports from Caracas.

  • THE FACTS
    Crime and Punishment

  • What you learn in prison
    Kevin Marron talks to the people who have spent years in Canadian penitentiaries and finds out what it has done for them.

  • In your face
    In Kenya you had better step carefully and carry a little extra cash if you want to stay clear of the law. Cathy Majtenyi on a police force on the rampage.

  • Simply
    The Punishment Machine

  • From safety net to dragnet
    Jerome Miller measures an alarming trend towards criminalization by race.

  • Mr Walkabout
    John Charles puzzles over why the Japanese appear so law-abiding.

  • A way out
    Richard Swift walks mainstreet USA to find the alternatives that are developing for an overburdened system of crime control.

  • Action directory

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