1983
Dr. Udo Schaefer explains that the breakdown of the old world order and the instigation of a new one carries with it the concomitant responsibility to revise existing penal laws. He reviews the various theories of crime and punishment from antiquity. He also covers Catholic and Protestant approaches to this subject.
Dr. Schaefer closes with the “implications of Baha’u’llah’s revelation” as it impacts penal law. Baha’is must view the penal conditions of the Kitab-i-Aqdas in the context of future society.