Europe picks up zero tolerance

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 4 07:34:40 PDT 1999


James Baird wrote:


>Wasn't there an Op-ed in the WSJ a few months back that argued that if
>Europe wanted to have a crime rate as low as the U.S. it would have to start
>locking up a lot more people?

Don't remember a WSJ article, but James Farmelant posted a Le Monde article to this list on how Europe was picking up on "zero tolerance" from the U.S. It's kind of long (28K), so I won't repost it, but I'll send a copy to anyone who wants one.

Doug



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