SOC 131 Study Guide - Mens Rea, Well-Order, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Revenge should not be a reason to punish. Only way punishment works is if it is certain you will receive it even if punishment is small. Against death penalty and torture mostly: nietzsche: genology of morals pretty sure there is nothing on this, hart: punishment and responsibility need to understand why they are being punished defined punishment and variations in definition pg. 69: von hirsch: penal theories spend 10 min. on this, spierenberg: body and state (pg. 98) trace punishment as public spectacle and how it evolved to a more humanitarian stand point but not so much that we want to see it in public transformation from corporal to prisons. 2 discourses: used to punish body, now punish mind. 111: morris: punishment for thought, persons and punishment cannot punish for thoughts mens rea vs. actus rea guilty mind vs. guilty action. Intent to commit crime and then carry it out.
