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Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers : Lessons from Life Outside the Law.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : Potomac Books, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781612347462
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pirates, Prisoners, and LepersDDC classification:
  • 340/.115
LOC classification:
  • K5018 -- .R6595 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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