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Hannah Arendt

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence co

Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt argues that punishments alone cannot stop crimes from happening because they do not have enough influence to fully discourage people. In fact, once a crime has occurred once, it tends to happen again more often than it appeared initially.

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