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Discourses on violence and punishment : probing the extremes /
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 religion...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.