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THE AUTHOR CONSIDERS JEFFREY REIMAN'S VIEW OF THE PUNISHMENT OFFENDERS DESERVE BEFORE TURNING TO HIS MORAL SCRUPLES, ALLEGED TO JUSTIFY LESSER PUNISHMENTS, AND TO THE DISCRIMINATORY DISTRIBUTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY WHICH STEPHEN NATHANSON STRESSES. REIMAN BELIEVES THE DEATH PENALTY IS DESERVED BY SOME MURDERERS, BUT SHOULD NEVER BE IMPOSED. MORAL SCRUPLES SHOULD PRECLUDE IT. IF THE PUNISHMENT DESERVED ACCORDING TO THE LEX TALIONIS IS MORALLY REPUGNANT, WE MAY IMPOSE LESS, PROVIDED THE SUFFERING IMPOSED IN LIEU OF WHAT IS DESERVED IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE SUFFERING INFLICTED ON THE CRIME VICTIM. HOWEVER, SUFFERING EXCEEDING THAT OF HIS VICTIM CAN NEVER BE DESERVED BY THE OFFENDER; TO IMPOSE IT WOULD BE "UNJUST FOR THE SAME REASONS THAT MAKE PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT UNJUST."

Reiman Publications represent a singular model—80% of content is submitted by readers and the magazines are ad-free. This study places the magazines within the broader American cultural landscape, showing how the role of suburban middle-class white women is tied to traditional values, religion, and a valorization of country taste as "authentic" expression. Through depth interviews, close textual reading, and narrative and rhetorical analysis, the study demonstrates how an imagined community is constructed, depicts readers' shared social space, and suggests how the magazines frame and build core values, binding readers into a community by voicing a shared lifestyle and self-image.