Overview
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
- | Author: Otto Kirchheimer
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2003
- | Number of Pages: 324 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0765809214
- | ISBN-13: 9780765809216
