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Punishment, politics and culture / edited by Austin Sarat, Patricia Ewick.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 30.
- Studies in law, politics, and society, 1059-4337 ; v. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment.
- Justice, Administration of--Philosophy.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Jai, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beginning with an overview of the history and philosophy of punishment, these articles explore penal practices in the modern state and the deeper philosophical and social aspects of retributive justice.
- Contents:
- Revisiting the history and philosophy of punishment. "Pattern penitence" : penitential narrative and moral reform discourse in nineteenth-century Britain / Anna Kaladiouk
- "Foremost among the prerogatives of sovereignty" : the power to punish and the death of comity in American criminal law / Karl B. Shoemaker
- Punishment, institutions, and justfications / Leo Zaibert
- Philosophical theories of punishment and the history of prison reform / Christopher Sturr. Penal practices in the modern state. Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship / Keally McBride
- Perhaps all pain is punishment : community corrections and the hyperghetto / William Lyons
- How science matters : discourse on deterrence in a death penalty debate / Theodore Sasson. Representing punishment in literature and popular culture. Executing sentences in Lolita and the law / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- The psychic life of punishment (Kant, Nietzsche, Freud) / Klaus Mladek
- Victim stories : documenting pain, punishment, prison and power / Alexandra Juhasz
- Remote justice : tuning in to small claims, race, and the reinvigoration of civic judgment / Valerie Karno.
- Notes:
- "Special volume"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-01635-7
- 9786611016357
- 0-08-047405-5
- OCLC:
- 437177052
- Publisher Number:
- 9780762310722
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