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Braithwaite, John (1999). A Future Where Punishment Is Marginalized: Realistic or Utopian? UCLA Law Review, Aug. ’99, vol. 46 (6): 1717-.

Braithwaite argues that the conventional way of thinking about the criminal justice system is the main obstacle to its effectiveness in reducing crime. Physical punishment and the rise of the nation-state; Why punishment can have bad consequences; Features on the restorative justice alternative; Essential factors to making crime prevention work.


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