Judicial Corporal Punishment in the United States?: Lessons from Islamic Criminal Law for Curing the Ills of Mass Incarceration

Abstract

… on many subjective factors, including cultural norms and values, personal experience, education, religious affiliation … it is important to note that incarceration, while disfavored in Islamic criminal law, is … Imprisonment existed long before Islam.49 However, neither the Qur'an nor the …