Discourses on Violence and Punishment

Discourses on Violence and Punishment

Probing the Extremes

Petkovic, Kresimir

Lexington Books

07/2017

610

Dura

Inglês

9781498513449

15 a 20 dias

This book probes the extreme variation in discourses on violence and punishment. Its comprehensive examination brings together normative political-theoretical discourses on punishment, historical changes in violence and punishment, and perspectives on punishment from political powers, world religions, literature and film, criminology, and theodicy.
Chapter 1 Death Penalty: Political Theory of Extreme Punishment Chapter 2 A History of Violence: Changing Conceptions of Punishment in Time and Some Attempts to Explain Them Chapter 3 Comparative Politics of Punishment: Stories from the Penal Peripheries Chapter 4 Punishment and Power: If Power Punishes, Does Absolute Power Punish Absolutely? Chapter 5 Punishment and the Sacred: How Do Great Religions Punish? Chapter 6 Punishment and Fiction: Images of Violence in Literature and Film Chapter 7 Criminology: Politics in the Science of Crime Chapter 8 Dismantling Sorrow
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