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Law
2008-03-15 2008-03-15

Punishment and Culture

Author: Philip Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226766101
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Book Description
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.