Living beyond the law
Subtitle: how people behave when the rules don't apply
By: Paul H. Robinson and Sarah Robinson
Contributors: Robinson, Sarah Jane, 1961- author
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442231030; 9781442231047
Subjects: Criminal law; Philosophy; Administration of Criminal justice; Punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is our nature? : What does government do for us, and to us?; title: Cooperation : lepers & pirates; title: Punishment : Drop City & the utopian communes; title: Justice :  1850's San Francisco & the California gold rush; title: Injustice : the Attica uprising & the Batavia shipwreck; title: Survival : the Inuits of King William Land & the mutineers on Pitcairn Island; title: Subversion : hellships & prison camps; title: Credibility : America's prohibition; title: Excess : committing felony murder while asleep in bed & life in prison for an air-conditioning fraud; title: Failure : getting away with murder beyond a reasonable doubt; title: Collapse : Escobar's Colombia; title: Taking justice seriously five proposals; title: Epilogue : what are they doing now?