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Punishment and Culture,Smith, Philip,University of Chicago Press;Footprint Books [Distributor] by Philip Smith is a law available to read on EtoBox.
What is Punishment and Culture,Smith, Philip,University of Chicago Press;Footprint Books [Distributor] about?
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.
Who reads Punishment and Culture,Smith, Philip,University of Chicago Press;Footprint Books [Distributor]?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Philip Smith
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226766096
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Sociology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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