Crime and punishment medieval to modern
What is the rationale for punishment? Matthew Sweet and guests discuss community, legal and state responses to crime from medieval times to now.
How have attitudes to punishment changed over time, and what ideas about the rationale for punishment are circulating today? In Radio 4's roundtable discussion programme, Matthew Sweet and guests explore the criminal justice system through history.
With:
Stephanie Brown, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull and 麻豆社 / AHRC New Generation Thinker
Scout Tzofiya Bolton, poet and broadcaster
Joanna Susskind Hardy, criminal barrister
Stephen Shapiro, Professor of American Literature at the University of Warwick
Jonathan Sumption, former Supreme Court judge
Producer: Eliane Glaser
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- Next Friday 21:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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