Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers : Lessons from Life Outside the Law.
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- 9781612347462
- 340/.115
- K5018 -- .R6595 2015eb
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1. HUMAN RULES -- 1. What Is Our Nature? What Does Government Do for Us and to Us? -- 2. Cooperation: Lepers and Pirates -- 3. Punishment: Drop City and the Utopian Communes -- 4. Justice: 1850s San Francisco and the California Gold Rush -- 5. Injustice: The Batavia Shipwreck and the Attica Uprising -- 6. Survival: The Inuits of King William Land and the Mutineers of Pitcairn Island -- 7. Subversion: Prison Campsand Hellships -- PART 2. MODERN LESSONS -- 8. Credibility: America's Prohibition -- 9. Excess: Committing Felony Murder While Asleep in Bed and Life in Prisonfor an Air- Conditioning Fraud -- 10. Failure: Getting Away with Murder Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- 11. Collapse: Escobar's Colombia -- 12. Taking Justice Seriously: Five Proposals -- Postscript: What Are TheyDoing Now? -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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