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Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law

Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law

Robinson, Paul H.
Robinson, Sarah M.

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral LawGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1612347320
ISBN13: 9781612347325
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Jul 15 2015
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world. How, then, did early humans survive on the Serengeti Plain, surrounded by faster, stronger, and bigger predators in a harsh and forbidding environment? Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers examines an array of natural experiments and accidents of human history to explore the fundamental nature of how human beings act when beyond the scope of the law. Pirates of the 1700s, the leper colony on Molokai Island, prisoners of the Nazis, hippie communes of the 1970s, shipwreck and plane crash survivors, and many more diverse groups--they all existed in the absence of formal rules, punishments, and hierarchies. Paul and Sarah Robinson draw on these real-life stories to suggest that humans are predisposed to be cooperative, within limits.

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