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Playing by the Numbers
Williams, Patricia J. | March 14, 2005 issue

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Discusses sentencing in the United States criminal justice system. Statement that punishment in Virginia is premised on probable propensity for crime, which is figured by taking into account age, gender and socioeconomic class; Statement that penalties are given according to a fixed scale assigning outcomes based on sociological and psychological predictions; Resemblance of the system to a form of prior restraint; Reference to the book "Sex and Reason," by Richard Posner; Comment made by President George W. Bush regarding African Americans and Social Security.

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SENTENCES (Criminal procedure); CRIMINAL procedure; JUDGMENTS, Criminal; POSNER, Richard; PRIOR restraint; SOCIAL security; SEX & Reason (Book); VIRGINIA; UNITED States
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