Punishment And Culture
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Punishment and Culture
| Author | : Philip Smith |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2008-03-15 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0226766101 |
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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.
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