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Top 10 Punishments That Didnât Fit The Crime
The justice system was founded on the principle that every crime or injustice has a fitting punishment. In ancient and modern societies, punishments ensure that wrongdoers pay for their crimes. In most cases, these punishments included, and still include, paying fines and carrying out set tasks to make restitution. Worst-case scenario, public execution aimed to teach a lesson and deter future offenders. But in a few cases, especially in the Medieval era, punishments were so severe that they scared everyone that learned of and saw them. This list of top 10 punishments takes a trip across history, highlighting punishments that, in retrospect, didn’t fit the crime.
Bridge Building / Building Bridge
Editor’s note: This is the twelfth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features an idea for an architectural intervention that would to better connect Torontonians with their ravine system. The designs in this series were created as part of Professor Brigitte Shim’s Thesis Research Option Studio or final Thesis Studio. The work and text in this post is by
Francesca Joyce whose bio you can find below.
Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park 1950s developments of the Toronto post-war housing boom were designed with mixed housing types and vast open green space to be supported by local shops and services. The original design also included community spaces, but due to economic circumstances these were never realized.