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Justice Before the Law (with Michael Huemer)

Free Thoughts

CHAPTER

The Theory of Punishment, Is It Legitimate?

Most murderers, even murderers, age out of murder and don't indo being serial murderers. They might kill once in a crime of pas d, but by the time they're 35, they're not really a riskity more. So it's more like the ted bundle. And there's some deterrence of fact from o punishing people. But social scientists say that most of the deterrencof fact has to do with the certainty of actually getting caught,. rather than the severity of the punishment.

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