Types of deviance and the effectiveness of legal sanctions
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"Does the imposition of legal sanctions deter crime? Are criminal sanctions so structured that they maximize whatever deterrent effect they may have? Professor Chambliss reviews some of the empirical data bearing on these questions. He concludes from this evidence that the legal system may be operating inefficaciously: It punishes most severely those persons and crimes that are least deterrable, and it punishes least severely those persons and crimes that are most deterrable "
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