{"id":5016,"date":"2015-06-02T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:57:13","slug":"questionable-committments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"Questionable Committments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/sites\/cato-unbound.org\/files\/styles\/essaybannerscustom_user_768_or_greater_1x\/public\/images\/covers\/may2015header.jpg?itok=qxouDmqo\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;No one wants to allow a child to be hurt, and laws that create mechanisms to \u201ckeep bad men away\u201d are seductive because they make us feel safer \u2013 but that safety is an illusion that comes at a great price. As a society we are not capable of predicting who will or will not reoffend, and we must not punish someone for imaginary future crimes. When we begin to define individuals as criminals for who they are or what they think, instead of holding them accountable for specific acts, we rob them of their constitutional right to due process and dangerously erode the barriers that are meant to keep the awesome power of the state, to take away our lives and our liberty, at bay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2015\/06\/01\/galen-baughman\/questionable-committments\">article<\/a> by Galen Baughman in <em>Cato Unbound<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No one wants to allow a child to be hurt, and laws that create mechanisms to \u201ckeep bad men away\u201d are seductive because they make us feel safer \u2013 but that safety is an illusion that comes at a great price. As a society we are not capable of predicting who will or will not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5016\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questionable Committments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}