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We know that criminal punishment has consequences, both good and bad, and that many people think that offenders deserve it.\\xa0But what does punishment mean? What is society trying to express in the way it punishes criminals?\\xa0And since people from all sides of the political spectrum agree that the prison population is way too big, is there a way to convey that meaning with alternative forms of sanctions? David and Tamler discuss Yale Law Professor Dan Kahan\'s classic paper "What do alternative sanctions mean?"\\xa0that addresses these questions. But first, Tamler gets sanctimonious about other people being sanctimonious about guns on campus.\\xa0At the risk of angering "that student,"\\xa0we "go there."\\xa0\\xa0

Links

• University of Houston Faculty Devises Pointers on How to Avoid Getting Shot by Armed Students by Elliott Hannon [slate.com]
• A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students\\xa0by Rio Fernandes [chronicle.com]
• Kahan, D. M. (1996). What do alternative sanctions mean?\\xa0The University of Chicago Law Review, 63(2), 591-653. [law.yale.edu]
• Moskos, P. (2013). In defense of flogging. Basic Books. [amazon.com affiliate link]

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