Practice question · True or false
Bobbio argued that modern law works not only by repressing undesired conduct but also by promoting desired conduct.
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True, and the argument was aimed at his own discipline. Legal theory built on the sanction could describe the criminal code beautifully and had no vocabulary for the enormous promotional apparatus of the modern state — subsidies, reliefs, prizes, favourable statuses — which is where a great deal of contemporary regulation actually happens.
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