London photo of the day: heads on spike

by MaryAnn Johanson

Fri, Feb 01, 2013

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heads on spikes
Not a metaphor or pun. Not real heads, either, of course. At The Clink Prison Museum.

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PJK

Sat, Feb 02, 2013 9:08am

Is one of the them George W. Bush?

RogerBW

Sun, Feb 03, 2013 6:16pm

An early example of penal theory that turns out not to work: people’s willingness to break the law, it transpires, is actually pretty much uncorrelated with the severity of the punishment they face, but is closely correlated with how likely they think they are to be caught.