Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to the endeavors of those who have concerned themselves with the criminal and the prevention of crime, that cruelty punishment has an inevitable tendency to produce cruelty in people.
- ISBN10 0313201986
- ISBN13 9780313201981
- Publish Date 19 May 1978 (first published May 1963)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher ABC-CLIO
- Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 524
- Language English