The Case Against Punishment Quotes

“For example, suppose that the pain of a nose-breaking punch is equivalent to the pain of six months in jail. If we can deter one in nine such punches with the threat of three months’ imprisonment, and catch half the offenders, we will wind up imposing four three-month sentences to deter one punch—a bad bargain from the utilitarian point of view.”
― Deirdre Golash, The Case Against Punishment: Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law