Punishment and Culture
| Author | : Philip Smith |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2008-03-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780226766102 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0226766101 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (101 Downloads) |
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.