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This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view. It provides an economic analysis of

Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken place in the politics and practice of American corrections.

This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view. It provides an economic analysis of

This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem

In The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes—no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues