Download or read book The Crime Conundrum written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There may be areas of human life in which people have profited from understanding history, but criminal justice is definitely not one of them. In this field, each generation seems to undo the last generation's reforms. Each generation resurrects old failures and trots them out as new. A previous generation hailed indeterminate sentencing as a great