Impediments to Penal Reform

The Dilemma of Penal Reform

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Dr. Hermann Mannheim, with a preface by Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders. Allen & Unwin. 1939. pp. 228. 7s. 6d. This book is based on a course of public lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. Professor Carr-Saunders points ?ut that for the constructive development of Penal Reform we need, firstly, accurate systematic sociological and psychological s...

Understanding Penal Reform: The Dynamic of Change

Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy, The

Money and mass incarceration: The bad, the mad, and penal reform*

Spelman’s (2009, this issue) analysis calls into question the popular contention among many antiprison activists and other penal reformers that the U.S. prison boom is bound to end soon because states just cannot afford it anymore. States have had extremely deep pockets to build more prisons even in hard times, and the availability of state revenues to pay for more prison beds has been a leadin...

Missing Information Impediments to Learnability

To what extent is learnability impeded when information is missing in learning instances? We present relevant known results and concrete open problems, in the context of a natural extension of the PAC learning model that accounts for arbitrarily missing information.