{"id":244,"date":"2007-07-02T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/02\/getting-soft-or-getting-smart\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T18:46:00","slug":"getting-soft-or-getting-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/02\/getting-soft-or-getting-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"getting soft or getting smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/252-softy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082769718801428882\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/253-softy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=445\">the sentencing project<\/a> and talkleft:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>in the <em>democratic forum<\/em> broadcast on pbs last thursday, the 1,756 democratic candidates for president addressed the issue of crime and punishment. watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kcet\/tavissmiley\/special\/forums\/video\/ch6.html\">the video<\/a> and reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/28\/us\/politics\/29transcript.html?pagewanted=11&amp;bl&amp;amp;amp;amp;_r=1&amp;ei=5087%0A&amp;en=854f8e2a84e9cef0&amp;ex=1183348800\">the transcript<\/a>, one gets the sense that the bloom is <em>officially <\/em>off the mandatory minimum rose.<\/p>\n<p>aside from eliminating the disparity in crack\/powder cocaine sentencing, however, the candidates were a bit light on concrete reforms. breaking news: <em>not one <\/em>candidate called for greater racial disparity in Justice or expansion of the death penalty for expired license plate tabs.<\/p>\n<p>hmmm. what happened to the clinton\/gore <em>kill &#8217;em all<\/em> crime rhetoric of the nineties? is it getting just a little bit safer for democrats to be just a little bit softer on crime? i&#8217;ll be fascinated to hear the republican response.<\/p>\n<p>in not-unrelated news, the <em>times <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/02\/opinion\/02mon1.html\">endorsed the second chance act<\/a> today, to &#8220;provide grants, guidance and assistance to states and localities that are developing programs to reintegrate former inmates into their communities.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via the sentencing project and talkleft: in the democratic forum broadcast on pbs last thursday, the 1,756 democratic candidates for president addressed the issue of crime and punishment. watching the video and reading the transcript, one gets the sense that the bloom is officially off the mandatory minimum rose. aside from eliminating the disparity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}