LEADER 03954nam 2200637 450 001 9910461047603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61234-744-4 010 $a1-61234-746-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000431061 035 $a(EBL)3571040 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001519933 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11851179 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001519933 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11521970 035 $a(PQKB)10968555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571040 035 $a(OCoLC)910964296 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11064699 035 $a(OCoLC)929514627 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000431061 100 $a20150626h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPirates, prisoners, and lepers $elessons from life outside the law /$fPaul H. Robinson and Sarah M. Robinson ; designed by N. Putens 210 1$a[Herndon, Virginia] :$cPotomac Books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61234-732-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhat Is Our Nature? What Does Government Do for Us and to Us? -- Cooperation : Lepers and Pirates -- Punishment : Drop City and the Utopian Communes -- Justice : 1850's San Francisco and the California Gold Rush -- Injustice : The Batavia Shipwreck and the Attica Uprising -- Survival : The Inuits of King William Land and the Mutineers of Pitcairn Island -- Subversion : Prison Camps and Hellships -- Credibility : America' s Prohibition -- Excess : Committing Felony Murder While Asleep in Bed and Life in Prison for an Air-Conditioning Fraud -- Failure : Getting Away with Murder Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Collapse : Escobar's Colombia -- Taking Justice Seriously : Five Proposals -- Postscript : What Are They Doing Now? 330 $a"It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world. How, then, did early humans survive on the Serengeti Plain, surrounded by faster, stronger, and bigger predators in a harsh and forbidding environment? Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers examines an array of natural experiments and accidents of human history to explore the fundamental nature of how human beings act when beyond the scope of the law. Pirates of the 1700's, the leper colony on Molokai Island, prisoners of the Nazis, hippie communes of the 1970's, shipwreck and plane crash survivors, and many more diverse groups--all existed in the absence of formal rules, punishments, and hierarchies. Paul and Sarah Robinson draw on these real-life stories to suggest that humans are predisposed to be cooperative within limits. What these "communities" did and how they managed have dramatic implications for shaping our modern institutions. Should today's criminal justice system build on people's shared intuitions about justice? Or are we better off acknowledging this aspect of human nature but using law to temper it? Knowing the true nature of our human character and our innate ideas about justice offers a roadmap to a better society. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCriminal law$xPhilosophy 606 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$xPhilosophy 606 $aPunishment$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriminal law$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCriminal justice, Administration of$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPunishment$xPhilosophy. 676 $a340/.115 700 $aRobinson$b Paul H.$f1948-$0626903 702 $aRobinson$b Sarah M. 702 $aPutens$b N. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461047603321 996 $aPirates, prisoners, and lepers$92453902 997 $aUNINA