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Crimes of punishment : America's culture of violence /
This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment
- Punishment and the cycle of violence
- The effects of corporal punishment on children
- Punishments and perils in today's prisons
- Prisons are "factories of crime"
- The scapegoating of prisoners
- The process of criminalization of prisoners--a relational perspective
- The limitations of prison reform.
- Arguments for and against the death penalty
- Is there a moral justification for punishment?
- Does incarceration deter the offender from committing further crimes?
- Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment
- Why incarcerate women?
- Emotional abuse
- Social systems of domination and punishment
- The sociopathology of the prison system.
- Crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich--a comparison
- A nonviolent approach to communicating and relating to others
- On the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches in groups
- Restorative justice--a new form of nonpunitive justice social injustice
- Domestic abuse--a comparison between the retributive justice and restorative justice approaches
- Restorative justice and retributive justice--a comparison.