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In recent years popular support for the death penalty in the US has begun to wane. This article discusses some of the reasons for this development including evidence that innocent individuals have been put to death. Other reasons involve legal debates about executing the mentally retarded, racial disparity and LWOP (Life Without Parole) as an alternative.

Building on previous work of John Gillis, Joseph Kett, Harry Hendrick and others, this article examines evidence from a country-Austria-included only minimally in the debate concerning adolescence and focuses on the conceptual aspects of the debate as reflected in the attitudes and actions of those authorities responsible for "creating" or "discovering" an adolescent life phase at the turn of the century. The argument is that the modern adolescent image was created as a result of authorities' attempts to institutionalize the offspring of the poor initially to remove a "threat" to society and later as a result of new social-scientific theories about youth development.

Abstract: Much of the confusion surrounding tagging has been created because the topic has yet to be debated in the cultural context within which it has been developed. This paper identifies the appropriate cultural context for an informed debate and asks that it begin. 'Our much vaunted progress in technology, generally of civilization, is like the axe in the hand of a pathological criminal' (Einstein 1917).