%0 Journal Article
%T The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece
%J Public choice
%D 2009
%A D'Amico, Daniel J.
%V 145
%N 3-4
%P 461-482
%X 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>
%G en
%I Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group
%@ 0048-5829
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-009-9575-z