| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 282 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in law, politics, and society,
1059-4337 ;
v. 30
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Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Punishment.
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Punishment. |
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Justice, Administration of -- Philosophy.
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Justice, Administration of. |
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sarat, Austin.
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Ewick, Patricia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Punishment, politics and culture. Amsterdam : Elsevier/JAI, 2004 0762310723 9780762310722 (OCoLC)54044261 |
| ISBN |
9780080474052 (electronic book) |
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0080474055 (electronic book) |
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9781849502504 (electronic book) |
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1849502501 (electronic book) |
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0762310723 (hardback) |
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9780762310722 |
| Standard No. |
9780762310722 |
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