"In the Finnish court, though, that's not an unusual punishment, said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
"Within the national context within the criminal justice system of Finland, this is not surprising," she said.
"Maybe the biggest critical difference between the Finnish system and ours is that the Finnish system puts rehabilitation at the core of the criminal justice system," Matwyshyn said. "The United States system does not do that. We have competing roles of deterrence, retribution and incapacitation.""
- Date Published:07/13/2015
- Original Publication:The Washington Post