The Daily Wire
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Julian Zelizer : The concept of criminal justice, and punishing crime, has been destroyed.
Zelizer says the idea that deterrence doesn’t exist is that you cannot deter crime by punishing it.
He says the Obama DOJ recently published a document entitled, “ Five Things About Deterrence ,” essentially the modern manifesto of the anti-incarceration movement in the U.S ..
A Carnegie Mellon professor says more police means less crime, but DOJ says it's wrong.
John Sutter says the professor's research shows that prison sentences don't deter crime.
Sutter: This is the basis for the DOJ’s entire argument against deterrence.
He says the DOJ cites the research to justify its policy of releasing as many criminals as possible.
John Sutter : DOJ memo says jail only makes criminals more dangerous.
He says it's impossible to say which criminals are likely to reoffend, and which criminals will "age out" of a life of crime.
Sutter says long prison sentences have another important goal, known as “incapacitation” They remove violent criminals from public, so they can’t hurt anyone again.
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