Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199861279.003.0008
Abstract
This chapter presents an authoritative overview of punishment, with particular emphasis on the limits of reason and the virtue of randomization. It includes comments by some of the nation's top legal scholars from the field of criminal law, tackling topics such as the Enlightenment ideal of social engineering through punishment and the role of chance in the administration of criminal justice.
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Criminology and Criminal Justice | Law
Recommended Citation
Bernard E. Harcourt,
Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment: On the Limits of Reason and the Virtues of Randomization,
Criminal Law Conversations, Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Eds.), Oxford University Press
(2009).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4313