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The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment

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The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.

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The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment

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