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To: TimF who wrote (4635)	2/3/2001 10:36:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Karen, could you expand on the idea of "respecting the injury to the victim". Also what about punishment as a means of deterence? I think it's really important not to be dismissive of crime victims. I remember when people ignored rape complaints by prostitutes, for example. I think it's also dismissive if police can't/don't put sufficient resources on a case to investigate it properly. It's also dismissive if juries refuse to convict (a la OJ). IMO, justice requires an appropriate level of effort and competence by the authorities. An unusually light punishment is also dismissive of the victim and not justice. I don't think that punishment as deterrence has anything to do with either justice or vengeance. I'm probably not a good person to be talking about vengeance. I don't think I have the vengeance gene. I would consider demands for extraordinary punishment to be an function of vengeance. Also, taking the law into one's own hands if there's no further risk to the victim. And any retaliation committed in anger, particularly to an alleged perp prior to the end of the judicial process. You brought up this subject. What did you have in mind? Karen

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