The Punitive Imagination : Law, Justice, and Responsibility / edited by Austin Sarat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--United States--Congresses.

Punishment.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes and meanings of punishment in the United States. The Punitive Imagination examines some of the critical assumptions that frame America''s approach to punishment. It explores questions such as:· What is the place of concern for human dignity in our prevailing ideologies of punishment?·

Contents:

Examining assumptions : an introduction to punishment, imagination, and possibility / Austin Sarat

"To see a world in a grain of sand": dignity and indignity in American criminal justice / Carol S. Steiker

Injustice, authority, and the criminal law / Stephen P. Garvey

Imprisonment without justice / Caleb Smith

Punishment as an act of the imagination / Leo Katz

"Which question? which lie?" : reflections on Payne v. Tennessee and the "quick glimpse" of life / Michelle Brown

Afterword : time, imagination, and punishment / Patricia Ewick.

Notes:

"This volume is the product of a symposium held at the University of Alabama School of Law on September 28, 2012."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8796-X

OCLC:

891449617