Unlike the stiff Federal Sentencing Guidelines, state prisons offer a parole system that lets inmates return to society based on their behavior in prison and their likelihood of returning to society as a better citizen.
Most modern democracies -- including the United States -- have had to wrestle in recent years with the delicate balance between respect for fundamental civil liberties and restraint of behavior inimical to a free society.
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At some point, the news media and society in general are going to have to decide to begin holding these elements accountable to standards of behavior that are acceptable in a civilized society.
And it takes a special type of society to support such behavior.
That fiction, I believe, has combined with the trend in society for "extreme" behavior.
Mainstream society considers smoking an accepted behavior and smoking remains popular.
However, because each individual is making a personally profitable decision even if it is a waste of resources overall, it is hard to move a society away from such unproductive behavior.
Eckhard Cordes, Cchaiman and chief executive of the German retailer METRO, set the early morning tone at the leadership and trust panel, urging business leaders to help set the moral agenda, echoing an emerging theme across sessions, that sustainable behavior is good for both companies and society.
What was lost in the transition between these two economic worldviews in the last 30 years was a recognition that business is embedded in society, a society ruled by laws that govern behavior and set long-term economic priorities and goals, often to the benefit of corporate America.
For example, the slippery slope concern is a proper brake on public policy when a given policy seeking to curb a specific, discreet problem would have a likelihood of curbing similar behavior that is in fact not a problem, and indeed, behavior that might be of value to the society.
In Singapore, we sought employees who could demonstrate "aggressive hospitality" toward guests, rather than "speak when spoken to" behavior, to create a competitive edge within a society that is not traditionally service-based.
Before addressing any behavior issues, animal trainer Kristen Collins of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) says pet owners should start with a thorough veterinary exam.
Rather they are particular legal concepts manifesting the more general principle that society, having the power to punish dangerous behavior, cannot be powerless against those who work to bring about that behavior.
It proved that society has the capacity to reassert norms of civilized behavior even when they appear to have permanently broken down.
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The Patty Hearst case is one in which society and the criminal justice system struggled with abduction victim accountability for behavior that helped lead to survival.
While businesses and society institute these measures to combat the high-tech gadget abuse, the bad behavior will probably remain, Friedland says.
"The increasing number of vehicles in the park and the unruly behavior of most are cause for much concern, " says Ravi Corea, president of the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS).
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