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Download or read book Penal Philosophy written by Gabriel Tarde and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1912 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarde constructs a sociological explanantion of crime in which the individual is ultimately the principal actor, and suggests forms of penalty whose principles avoided the determinist implications of positivism. The book should be of interest to students of criminology, jurisprudence and sociology.