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American journalist
Charles Eliot Silberman
(January 31, 1925 – February 5, 2011)
[1]
was an American journalist and author.
Silberman was born in
Des Moines, Iowa
. After service in the Pacific during
World War II
, he gained a B.A. in Economics from
Columbia University
in 1946 and also undertook graduate studies at Columbia. Subsequently, he taught at Columbia and
City College of New York
before joining
Fortune
magazine in 1953 where he remained until the early 1970s.
[1]
He was the author of
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice
(1978), a study of crime and the
American
criminal justice system
.
[2]
Silberman used econometric methods to measure the effectiveness in terms of criminal
deterrence
of two factors: the degree of punishment; and the probability of apprehension. A simple "expected loss" model would predict that deterrent effect would depend only on the result of multiplying the penalty by the probability of it occurring. Silberman concluded that contrary to this model, the likelihood of punishment had a greater effect in most situations. Silberman also stated, "Crime does more than expose the weakness in
social relationships
; it undermines the
social order
itself, by destroying the assumptions on which it is based."
Silberman's book
Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education
is regarded as one of the leading investigations into and critiques of the performance of the American educational system and has been praised for its scope and insight.
[3]
He was also the author of
Crisis in Black and White
and
A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today
.
[4]
Silberman died on February 5, 2011, in
Sarasota, Florida
, aged 86. He had four sons and seven grandchildren.
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