TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1953//
TI  - A Criminological Approach to the Social Control of International Aggressions
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Eliot, Thomas D.
SP  - 513
EP  - 518
VL  - 58
IS  - 5
N2  - Experience has shown the futility of revenge as the solution or preventive of criminality. Yet we define crime in terms of war and treat criminals accordingly. Today we define war in terms of crime, justifying reprisals against an enemy people as though they were a collective criminal. Mere retribution is self-defeating in both cases. But the thesis is proposed that if an aggressor government, so defined by a super-national tribunal, is subjected to drastic but hate-less rehabilitative and probationary treatment, consistent with modern criminological theory and practice, the vicious circles of cumulative international hatred and revenge may be broken.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/221205
ID  - ref1
ER  -