On Crime And Much Harder Punishment.

The article focuses on crime and punishment in the U.S. A survey in spring 1978 revealed that 62% of Americans were in favor of the death penalty. It notes that the crime rate increased by 300% in 1960 when the society was at its greatest pains to humanize the justice system, make rehabilitation programs work and allow indeterminate sentences to relax the law's supposedly heartless rigidity. Furthermore, it mentions that imprisonment is designed to deter others from committing crime, to protect society from the criminal and to rehabilitate the criminal. It also states that U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy has abolished parole boards and indeterminate sentences.