[PDF] The Pleasure Of Punishment eBook

Author : Magnus Hörnqvist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429589611

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Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
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Author : Robert Mills
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Suspended Animation argues that not only is the stereotype of uncontrolled violence in the Middle Ages historically misleading, the gulf between modern society and the medieval era is not as immense as we might think.

Author : David Garland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226922502

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In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucault, he insightfully critiques the entire spectrum of social thought concerning punishment, and reworks it into a new interpretive synthesis. "Punishment and Modern Society is an outstanding delineation of the sociology of punishment. At last the process that is surely the heart and soul of criminology, and perhaps of sociology as well—punishment—has been rescued from the fringes of these 'disciplines'. . . . This book is a first-class piece of scholarship."—Graeme Newman, Contemporary Sociology "Garland's treatment of the theorists he draws upon is erudite, faithful and constructive. . . . Punishment and Modern Society is a magnificent example of working social theory."—John R. Sutton, American Journal of Sociology "Punishment and Modern Society lifts contemporary penal issues from the mundane and narrow contours within which they are so often discussed and relocates them at the forefront of public policy. . . . This book will become a landmark study."—Andrew Rutherford, Legal Studies "This is a superbly intelligent study. Its comprehensive coverage makes it a genuine review of the field. Its scholarship and incisiveness of judgment will make it a constant reference work for the initiated, and its concluding theoretical synthesis will make it a challenge and inspiration for those undertaking research and writing on the subject. As a state-of-the-art account it is unlikely to be bettered for many a year."—Rod Morgan, British Journal of Criminology Winner of both the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1479861952

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Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.

Author : Peter Karl Koritansky
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813218837

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Peter Karl Koritansky is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Author : Alfred C Ewing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136209840

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First published in 1929, this book explores the crucial, ethical question of the objects and the justification of punishment. Dr. A. C. Ewing considers both the retributive theory and the deterrent theory on the subject whilst remaining commendably unprejudiced. The book examines the views which emphasize the reformation of the offender and the education of the community as objects of punishment. It also deals with a theory of reward as a compliment to a theory of punishment. Dr. Ewing’s treatment of the topics is philosophical yet he takes in to account the practical considerations that should determine the nature and the amount of the punishment to be inflicted in different types of cases. This book will be of great interest to students of philosophy, teachers and those who are interested in the concrete problems of punishment by the state. It is an original contribution to the study of a subject of great theoretical and practical importance.

Author : Richard Arthur Peace
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019517562X

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This Casebook is a collection of interpretations of Crime and Punishment. The selection not only reflects earlier work by major critics in the field, but also more recent studies. At the same time the choice of critical approaches has been made on the basis of covering the novel's various aspects: Dostoevsky's debt to other novelists in the European tradition; his roots as a writer in the so-called "Natural School" of the 1840s with its emphasis on the theme of the city; the thematic and symbolic structure of the novel itself; the psychology of the hero; the philosophical content of the novel and its relationship to contemporary thought; the novel's religious dimension. This latter approach has long been established in western criticism, but the two essays with which the Casebook concludes are by modern Russian scholars, who examine the novel in the light of their own Orthodox tradition.

Author : Isaac Parks
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368195107

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.