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Author : Randall G. Shelden
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 2020-12-10
Our Punitive Society written by Randall G. Shelden and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Social Science categories.
This reader-friendly exploration of the primary forces relevant to punishment—poverty and political powerlessness—highlights the necessity for humane alternatives to our current incarceration binge. This provocative overview looks at the business of punishment and at the historical patterns of control regarding slavery, the death penalty, women, the LGBTQ community, juveniles, and supervision. The United States has the world’s highest rate of incarceration—a form of punishment that separates the least privileged from the rest of society, creating populations of damaged lives. All of society pays the price for overly punitive sanctions. Equal justice is not possible in an unequal society. Up-to-date statistics illustrate the race, class, and gender inequalities in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has expanded for half a century. Will challenges to policing succeed in narrowing the net of social control? Will the cost of maintaining a massive system stimulate a transformation, or will stakeholders support minimal reforms that do not threaten their interests? The public is largely unaware of most of the workings of the criminal justice system. Through this engaging text, the authors hope to provide insights that encourage readers to examine the collateral effects of policies to address crime and the role of punishment.
Our Punitive Society
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Author : Randall G. Shelden
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-12-08
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This reader-friendly exploration of the primary forces relevant to punishment-poverty and political powerlessness-highlights the necessity for humane alternatives to our current incarceration binge. This provocative overview looks at the business of punishment and at the historical patterns of control regarding slavery, the death penalty, women, the LGBTQ community, juveniles, and supervision.The United States has the world's highest rate of incarceration-a form of punishment that separates the least privileged from the rest of society, creating populations of damaged lives. All of society pays the price for overly punitive sanctions. Equal justice is not possible in an unequal society. Up-to-date statistics illustrate the race, class, and gender inequalities in the criminal justice system.The criminal justice system has expanded for half a century. Will challenges to policing succeed in narrowing the net of social control? Will the cost of maintaining a massive system stimulate a transformation, or will stakeholders support minimal reforms that do not threaten their interests? The public is largely unaware of most of the workings of the criminal justice system. Through this engaging text, the authors hope to provide insights that encourage readers to examine the collateral effects of policies to address crime and the role of punishment.
The Punitive Imagination
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Author : Austin Sarat
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2014-10-15
The Punitive Imagination written by Austin Sarat and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Law categories.
Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and socially 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? · Can we justly punish the socially disadvantaged? · What assumptions about persons, social institutions, and the ordering of social space provide the basis for American punitiveness? · Who, if anyone, can be held responsible for excessively punitive criminal sentences? · How does punishment depend on prevailing views of free will, responsibility, desert, blameworthiness? · Where/how are those views subject to challenge in our punitive practices? As Sarat posits in his introduction, the way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, its understandings of mercy and forgiveness, and its particular ways of responding to evil. He goes on to discuss the history of punishment in the United States and what it reveals about assumptions made about persons that “undergird” the American system of punishment. The five additional contributors to The Punitive Imagination seek to illuminate what American practices of punishment tell us about who we are as a nation. Synthesizing cultural, sociological, philosophical, and legal perspectives, they offer a distinctive take on the meaning of punishment in America.
Beyond The Punitive Society
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Author : Harvey Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: London : Wildwood House
Release Date : 1973-01-01
Beyond The Punitive Society written by Harvey Wheeler and has been published by London : Wildwood House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-01 with Behaviorism (Psychology) categories.
The Punitive Society
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Author : Michel Foucault
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2018-08-07
The Punitive Society written by Michel Foucault and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with Philosophy categories.
These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society. Praise for Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France Series “Ideas spark off nearly every page...The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday.”—Bookforum “Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[He] is carrying out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture.”—The Nation “[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual coded and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.”—The New York Review of Books
Beyond The Punitive Society
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Author : Harvey Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Beyond The Punitive Society written by Harvey Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Operant conditioning categories.
Criminal Law Without Punishment
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Author : Valerij Zisman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Criminal Law Without Punishment written by Valerij Zisman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Philosophy categories.
How can criminal punishment be morally justified? Zisman addresses this classical question in legal philosophy. He provides two maybe surprising answers to the question. First, as for a methodological claim, it argues that this question cannot be answered by philosophers and legal scholars alone. Rather, we need to take into account research from social psychology, economy, anthropology, and so on in order to properly analyze the arguments in defense of criminal punishment. Second, the book argues that when such research is properly accounted for, none of the current attempts to justify criminal punishment succeed. But that does not imply that the state should do nothing about criminal wrongdoing. Rather, the arguments that were supposed to justify criminal punishment actually speak in favor of an alternative approach to criminal law: restitution to the victim and restorative justice. That is to say, the state should coerce offenders to provide restitution for the harm inflicted on victims, and whenever possible restorative approaches should be taken to address criminal wrongdoing.
The Culture Of Punishment
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Author : Michelle Brown
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-10-15
The Culture Of Punishment written by Michelle Brown and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Social Science categories.
America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments. The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.
Youth Gangs In American Society
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Author : Randall G. Shelden
language : en
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Release Date : 2001
Youth Gangs In American Society written by Randall G. Shelden and has been published by Wadsworth Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Education categories.
This text provides a comprehensive examination of gangs in American society, their culture and activities as well as the most recent research and statistical information.
Beyond The Punitive Society
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Author : Harvey Wheeler
language : en
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Release Date : 1973-01-01
Beyond The Punitive Society written by Harvey Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-01 with Behaviorism (Psychology) categories.
Papers presented at a symposium organized by J.H. Wheeler and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Instutions, held in Santa Barbara, CA.