Punishment and Civilization: Penal Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Society by John Pratt

Punishment and Civilization: Penal Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Society

John Pratt

214 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

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`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as 'civilized' on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that 'civilization' prior to 1970 and ...

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