Punishment and Culture

Author : Philip Smith

Hardback

Published : Saturday 1 March 2008

ISBN : 9780226766096

Price : €93.60

Description

Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine.

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