If one takes a long view – over centuries – it is pretty obvious that this is the case". Hough believes societies are reverting to this long-term trend as a result of a combination of reduced opportunities for criminals, better policing, reduced drug taking and, to a small extent, increased use of imprisonment, and that it is the swings around this trend that need explaining.
To the extent that imprisonment is intended to protect the public from danger, sentencing for possession of child pornography without knowing whether the individual either has actually abused, or is likely to abuse, children fails to meet that standard.
The first is the extent of violence, including torture, imprisonment (often in solitary confinement), beatings and executions in the ANC guerrilla camps, along with a perhaps understandable reluctance of the party after 1994 to acknowledge, let alone apologise for, such things.
If you square that -0.71, you get 0.5, a figure the so-called coefficient of determination that measures the extent to which imprisonment explains the lower crime rates.
He devised a quantitative index for measuring a nation's quality of life, weighing factors like arbitrary killings and imprisonments against the extent of civil liberties.
Fines and threats of imprisonment.
Weeks of imprisonment turned into months.
Twelve years of imprisonment without charge.
The life of imprisonment was a blind spot.
She was fined and sentenced to a day of imprisonment.
Both of the abducted clergymen survived five months of imprisonment.
