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Petković Krešimir <1982-> |
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Discourses on violence and punishment : probing the extremes / / Kresimir Petkovic |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (597 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : 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. |
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