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The punitive mentality: Its socio-historic development and decline

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Text reviewed: Pieter Spierenburg:The Spectacle of Suffering. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1984). 2 & 6 pp. £22.50. $39.50 (U.S.).

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Garland, D. The punitive mentality: Its socio-historic development and decline. Contemporary Crises 10, 305–320 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00729123

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