underrestrain

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fail to restrain sufficiently.
    — By enabling us to divert certain criminals from the penal to the psychiatric system, the fiction of mental illness as destroyer of mens rea protects us from guilt for punishing guilty but crazy criminals; by eschewing formally punishing—and, as a result, by capriciously underrestraining and overrestraining—persons guilty of crimes, this fiction endangers the safety of our persons and property and the integrity of our political system.

词形变化

underrestrains present,singular,third-person underrestraining participle,present underrestrained participle,past underrestrained past

词源

From under- + restrain.
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