{"id":60,"date":"2012-10-17T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=60"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:09:25","slug":"6-for-the-love-of-god-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"6. For the Love of God, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Rehabilitation01.png\" alt=\"When you commit a crime, the State responds by punishing you. But why? How does adding more suffering make society any better off?\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Rehabilitation01.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Rehabilitation01-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e05e6e1b0479067359427' value='69e05e6e1b0479067359427'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e05e6e1b0479067359427' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e05e6e1b0479067359427' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e05e6e1b0479067359427' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 3: Punishment\u00a0<br \/>Page 1: Why punishment?<\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Lawyer&#8217;s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n<p>Part Three: &#8220;For the Love of God, WHY?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe running off with a woman&#8217;s purse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you committed a crime, harming society.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State bonking Joe with her big freakin&#8217; hammer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The State responds by harming YOU.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe looking beat up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s reasonable to ask yourself<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What possible purpose is served by the State adding injury to injury?<\/p>\n<p>How does adding MORE suffering make society any better off?<\/p>\n<p>[Note: These chapters originally appeared as single, long-form posts on Tumblr. They have been broken down into individual pages for this website, for better comprehension and discussion.]<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e05e6e1b0479067359427' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,6,7],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-punishment","tag-rehabilitation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}