Jennifer’s Reviews > Thinking About Crime > Status Update

"...citizen patrols may be a sufficient response. There are two traditions of communal involvement in maintaining order. One, that of the "community watchmen" is as old as the first settlement of the New World. Until well into the nineteenth century, volunteer watchmen, not policemen, patrolled their communities to keep order. They did so...without taking the law into their own hands--...Guardian Angels...

"When criminals are deprived of their liberty, as by imprisonment (or banishment, or very tight control in the community), their ability to commit offenses against citizens is ended...it [incapacitation] does not require us to make any assumptions about human nature...Rehabilitation works only if the values, preferences, or time-horizon of criminals can be altered by plan.