Unthought Thoughts
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Punishment & Society
- Vol. 3 (1) , 167-181
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14624740122228168
Abstract
Fashions in punishment policies and forms vary with changes in sensibilities (as do fashions in the arts, attitudes towards homosexuality, drug use and religious tolerance). Propositions and policies that appear unthinkable in some times become commonplace in others; beliefs and positions that are hotly contested or widely endorsed in some times are forgotten in others. With a bit more modesty, and longer memories, contemporary advocates and policy makers could avoid the worst excesses of their predecessors.Keywords
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