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Punishment and Culture

Punishment and Culture
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780226766102
ISBN-13 : 0226766101
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Book Synopsis Punishment and Culture by : Philip Smith

Download or read book Punishment and Culture written by Philip Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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