The Importance of Punishment

Punishment in many eyes is to stop that particular recalcitrant individual from doing more of the same. But were we just to restrict our view of punishment to punishing this person to prevent their further wrongdoing? We're going to come up against some fairly counterintuitive consequences, he says. "It's not very attractive to think that merely by reforming their character, or even by getting what they want so they have no incentive to commit more crimes"