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Punishment and Culture

Punishment and Culture

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Product details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226766096
  • ISBN: 0226766098
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

AUTHOR

Philip Smith

SUMMARY

Philip Smith attacks the comfortable notion that punishment is about justice, reason and law. Instead, he argues that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process.Philip Smith is the author of 'Punishment and Culture', published 2008 under ISBN 9780226766096 and ISBN 0226766098.

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