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Stoltzfus, writing of the 2,000 Berlin women who marched down Rosenstrasse in 1943 to protest the incarceration of their Jewish husbands, sees that his case is something less than a study in pure virtue: Germans cared nothing for Jews unless self-interest intervened.
Euripides might feel at home editing the tabloids this month, what with murder-suicide (Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn), internecine family warfare (the Sinatras), incarceration for wife beating (Tommy Lee), and bizarre behavior (Charlie Sheen and Farrah Fawcett).
The 1994 edition does note, in passing, that the U.S. incarceration rate, 4.55 people per 100,000, is "ten times higher than that of Japan, Sweden, Ireland, and the Netherlands."
No one has written more over the years about the cost-effectiveness of incarceration as measured both in terms of its crime-reduction value and in terms of doing justice.
There has been a lot of sociological literature written about the formation of gangs in prisons as a means of surviving incarceration in the United States.