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Five case examples of traditional sanctions are presented, as practiced in primitive times and in recent incidents depicting customary law-ways in Cheyenne Indian culture, with Alaskan Natives, and as applied to Micronesian Islanders. Contemporary comparisons of traditional law-ways are made with restitution, reflective justice, forms of banishment, and Beccaria's "Properties of Punishment." Comparisons of modern-day usage of restitution, intensive supervision, house arrest, half-way-in house placement, and weekend jail imprisonment are discussed. A similarity is found between primitive sanctions and current recommendations for "intermediate" penalties to alleviate over crowdedness in prisons and jails and for more appropriate types of punishment.

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Modem Applications of Traditional Sanctions

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