David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

crime in society....No consistent body of
literature has developed over the last
twenty-five to thirty years indicating that
harsh sanctions deter.” What they were
saying is that most countries in the
developed world are in the middle part
of the curve. Locking up criminals past
their criminal peak and threatening
younger offenders with something that
younger offenders simply don’t care
about doesn’t buy you all that much.
3 Clear first described his ideas some
years ago in a research paper entitled
“Backfire: When Incarceration Increases
Crime.” It presented ten arguments for
why putting a very large number of
people behind bars might have the