as far as California’s version.
2 Kennedy goes on to argue that if you
examine actual criminal motivations,
what you discover is that the calculation
of risk and benefits is a “radically
subjective” process. Kennedy writes:
“What matters in deterrence is what
matters to offenders and potential
offenders. It is benefits and costs as they
understand them and define them.” As
the criminologists Anthony Doob and
Cheryl Marie Webster recently
concluded in a massive analysis of every
major punishment study: “A reasonable
assessment of the research to date—with
a particular focus on studies conducted
in the past decade—is that sentence
severity has no effect on the level of
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