If all the kids who made noises about killing their parents were laid end to end, you'd have an enormous sub-sample of the juvenile population, but usually it's all talk. Given the enormous amount of familial conflict, the rarity of kids killing parents is remarkable.
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At what point is the discretion in individual cases actually a pattern which has become a concrete rule and that rule violates the principle and the spirit of the law?
Despite a six-fold expansion in the prison system after 1980, crime hadn't gone down much. The frustration wasn't like the first time you put your 75 cents in the machine and nothing came out. This was like after you've been kicking the machine for 10 years with nothing happening.
That may be the politically safest way to run a parole board, but the problem is that it is a manifest perversion of what the legal structure is set up to do.
If all the kids who made noises about killing their parents were laid end to end, you'd have an enormous sub-sample of the juvenile population, but usually it's all talk. Given the enormous amount of familial conflict, the rarity of kids killing parents is remarkable.
This quote is just one of 5 total Franklin Zimring quotes in our collection. Franklin Zimring is known for saying 'If all the kids who made noises about killing their parents were laid end to end, you'd have an enormous sub-sample of the juvenile population, but usually it's all talk. Given the enormous amount of familial conflict, the rarity of kids killing parents is remarkable.' as well as some of the following quotes.