TY - JOUR
T1 - Epilogue: Some Musings on Deterrence
AU - Drumbl, Mark A.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Does law matter? Might it make a difference? Affect human behaviour? Assumptively, yes, it is easy to surmise such causation. Indeed, law can guide. Law manages. At times, law can even control and command and direct. But law is such a sprawling category. Not all laws are the same. Some laws are, in an Orwellian sense, more equal than others. Some walk on four legs, which is good, but not every law comes to walk on two legs when it is better. And some laws, well, they may not move anywhere (or anyone) at all.
AB - Does law matter? Might it make a difference? Affect human behaviour? Assumptively, yes, it is easy to surmise such causation. Indeed, law can guide. Law manages. At times, law can even control and command and direct. But law is such a sprawling category. Not all laws are the same. Some laws are, in an Orwellian sense, more equal than others. Some walk on four legs, which is good, but not every law comes to walk on two legs when it is better. And some laws, well, they may not move anywhere (or anyone) at all.
UR - https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1937&context=wlufac
U2 - 10.1093/jicj/mqab021
DO - 10.1093/jicj/mqab021
M3 - Comment/Essay/Note
JO - Journal of International Criminal Justice
JF - Journal of International Criminal Justice
ER -