@article{ref1,
title="The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece",
journal="Public choice",
year="2009",
author="D'Amico, Daniel J.",
volume="145",
number="3-4",
pages="461-482",
abstract="Recent histories of Ancient Greece describe a transition from customary law to public criminal justice between 800 and 400 B.C. This narrative contains three pieces of evidence against the presumption that prisons are a public good and government must provide incarcerations. First, before the rise of a formal government, Ancient Greece had a functioning system of criminal law enforcement. Second, the timeline surrounding the rise of government institutions in Ancient Greece originated with Solon's penal reforms. Lastly, the rise of a government system was more the result of private rather than public interest.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0048-5829",
doi="10.1007/s11127-009-9575-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-009-9575-z"
}