1. universal belief that we are incarcerating far too many criminals-a familiar clich� of modern American life" or "[t]he widely-held convention that we are locking serious criminals away in prison for unreasonably long stays;LAUDAN, supra note 1, at ix (arguing that it is wrong to believe
2. CrossNational Measures of Punitiveness;Alfred Blumstein;CRIME & JUST,2005