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Crimes of punishment : America's culture of violence / Theodore L. Dorpat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorpat, Theodore L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal psychology.
- Punishment (Psychology).
- Imprisonment--Psychological aspects.
- Imprisonment.
- Behavior therapy.
- Violence--United States.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination of the author s fifty-year career as a psychoanalyst, forensic psychologist and scholar, this wide-ranging work identifies the origins of violence and investigates the surprising consequences of punishment from a multitude of perspectives. In his treatment of the topic, Dr. Dorpat utilizes scientifi
- Contents:
- A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment
- Punishment and the cycle of violence
- The effects of corporal punishment on children
- Punishments and perils in today's prisons
- Prisons are "factories of crime"
- The scapegoating of prisoners
- The process of criminalization of prisoners
- a relational perspective
- The limitations of prison reform
- Arguments for and against the death penalty
- Is there a moral justification for punishment?
- Does incarceration deter the offender from committing further crimes?
- Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment
- Why incarcerate women?
- Emotional abuse
- Social systems of domination and punishment
- The sociopathology of the prison system
- Crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich
- a comparison
- A nonviolent approach to communicating and relating to others
- On the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches in groups
- Restorative justice
- a new form of nonpunitive justice social injustice
- Domestic abuse
- a comparison between the retributive justice and restorative justice approaches
- Restorative justice and retributive justice
- a comparison.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611398323
- 1-281-39832-2
- 0-87586-565-8
- OCLC:
- 476115887
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