I'm curious . . . do you think hanging was a deterrent to horse theft? Since it happened upon capture and not years later I am thinking it might have been.
I think that harsh punishments in general are a deterrent to crime. If a punishment is "measured", "detached" response it doesn't have the same effect.
Go down the left hand column and I have a couple posts about punishment linked to down there.
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I'm curious . . . do you think hanging was a deterrent to horse theft? Since it happened upon capture and not years later I am thinking it might have been.
I think that harsh punishments in general are a deterrent to crime. If a punishment is "measured", "detached" response it doesn't have the same effect.
Go down the left hand column and I have a couple posts about punishment linked to down there.
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