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Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawi
Language: en
Pages: 227
Pages: 227
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-07-10 - Publisher: SAGE
`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various n
Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-30 - Publisher: Quid Pro Books
First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today’s sociology of punishment. It is now repu
Language: en
Pages: 428
Pages: 428
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punis
Language: en
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-12 - Publisher: Routledge
Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context