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Volume 37 of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a special issue devoted to exploring humanistic perspectives on the subject of punishment. Drawing together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars, it explores the way "deviant" subjects are constructed an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Colección:Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 37.
Temas:
Punishment > Philosophy.
Criminal law > Philosophy.
Criminals > Public opinion.
Imprisonment > Social aspects.
Imprisonment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
Criminels > Opinion publique.
Emprisonnement > Aspect social.
Emprisonnement > Aspect moral.
Réhabilitation.
Jurisprudence & philosophy of law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Criminal law > Philosophy
Criminals > Public opinion
Criminals > Rehabilitation
Imprisonment > Moral and ethical aspects
Imprisonment > Social aspects
Punishment > Philosophy
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  • Cover
  • Crime and Punishment: Perspectives from the Humanities
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Editorial Board
  • Part I: Constructing the ''Deviant'' Subject
  • Regulating Desire and Imagination: The Art and Times of David Wojnarowicz
  • Who Exactly Is Trying to Censor this Man?
  • The Dread and Stigma of Plague's ''Epidemic Logic''
  • Decency Campaigns against Representations of Sex, Drugs, and Life as Disease
  • Contemporary Art as Democratic Engagement with the ''Outside' as a Future Horizon''
  • X-Rays of Civilization Reveal Millions of Tribes
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • The end of Magic: Superstition and ''So-Called Sorcery'' in Louis XIV'S Paris
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • ''The Law again. The Precious Law:'' Black Women Radicals and the Fight to end Legal Lynching, 1949-1955
  • PostWar Politics and the Emergence of Black Women's Leadership
  • Defining Legal Lynching
  • The Scottsboro Case: A Prewar Model for Postwar Protest
  • Space to do the Work: The Civil Rights Congress and Freedom Newspaper
  • The New Scottsboros: Willie McGee and the Martinsville Seven Cases
  • Radicalizing Defeats
  • New Beginnings: The Rosa Lee Ingram Case and The Sojourners for Truth and Justice
  • An Ending and Other Beginnings
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Part II: The Philosophical Context
  • The Paradox of Punishment
  • The Just Violence of State Punishments
  • The ''Reasons'' of State Punishment Rituals
  • Punishment as Retributive Justice
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • '''Torn' Between Justice and Forgiveness: Derrida on the Death Penalty and 'Lawful Lawlessness'''
  • ''Torn'' Between the Possible and the Impossible
  • Justice, Forgiveness, and Public ''Enlightenment''
  • Forgiving the Unforgivable, Despite Conditionality and Sovereignty
  • From ''Tears to Prayers'': Of Unremitting Responsibility and Hyperbolic Hospitality
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Cruelty, Competency, and Contemporary Abolitionism
  • The Competency Standard: Its Nature and Judicial History
  • Cruelty and the Rationale for the Competency Requirement
  • The Greater Cruelty?
  • Competency and Contemporary Abolitionism
  • Retributivism, Selfhood, and Satisfaction
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Cases Cited
  • Beyond Control and Responsibility: The Beauty of Mercy
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Part III: Inside the Penal Apparatus
  • Assimilation, Exclusion, and the End of Punishment
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Worst of the Worst*
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • Revisiting the Democratic Promise of Prisoners' Labor Unions
  • Introduction
  • Literature Review
  • How Inmate Labor U.

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