FURTHER COMMENTS ON PENALTY AND CRIME

Punishment is defined as the properly discounted imprisonment that a c riminal can expect if he commits a crime. The specific term in prison enacted by the legislature, however, may not deter crime. This is beca use the prospects for actually serving that sentence are small. Tsebel is apparently believes that the police sabotage legislature acts in or der to reach their own goals. Assuming that the police are free from s upervision that might be true, but the assumption is false.