The crime of punishment

The spread of violence has startled the nation. It flares up ominously and everywhere in spite of our laws and our courts. Or could it be because of our laws and our courts—and ourselves? Dr. Mehnin- ger takes our penal system apart to show why it doesn't work and what could be done to set it right. Read this book and weep—and pray that Karl Menninger may be heard in our chambers of injustice and the pesthouses we call penitentiaries. Half lament at the horrors of our justice, half proposals for remedy, and wholly common sense. Menninger's book is a model of rationalism." - Webster Schott, Life.