Punishment and Culture

Autor*innen

• Philip Cornwel-Smith

Parameter

• 224 Seiten
• 8 Lesestunden

• Lehrbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Universitätslehrbücher

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Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Einband: Paperback