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Paperback Punishment and Social Structure Book

ISBN: 0765809214

ISBN13: 9780765809216

Punishment and Social Structure

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Why are certain methods of punishment adopted or rejected in a given social situation? To what extent is the development of penal methods determined by basic social relations? The answers to these questions are complex, and go well beyond the thesis that institutionalized punishment is simply for the protection of society. While today's punishment of offenders often incorporates aspects of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology, at one time there was...

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