| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction on probing the extremes -- Death penalty : political theory of extreme punishment -- A history of violence: changing conceptions of punishment in time and some attempts to explain them -- Comparative politics of punishment : stories from the penal peripheries -- Punishment and power : if power punishes, does absolute power punish absolutely? -- Punishment and the sacred : how do great religions punish? -- Punishment and fiction : images of violence in literature and film -- Criminology : politics in the science of crime -- Dismantling sorrow |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Philosophy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Punishment -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017024186 |
| ISBN |
9781498513456 |
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149851345X |
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