By defining offenses, fixing scales of punishments, identifying who in the bureaucratic-legal hierarchy is to execute the punishment, the legal code also functions as one of the ever-potent tools of power. By creating a mental association of crime and punishment, the legal code instills in the minds of people the feeling of the inevitability of punishment and its link to the crime being performed.

Builds on: "Public punishment reasserted the sovereign's momentarily injured authority."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 691