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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968723603321

Titolo

The use of punishment / / edited by Sean McConville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cullompton ; ; Portland, : Willan, 2003

ISBN

1-134-00042-1

1-134-00035-9

1-281-33198-8

9786611331986

1-84392-490-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McConvilleSean

Disciplina

364.6

Soggetti

Punishment

Peines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Christian approach to punishment / Alan Duce -- Punishment : a psychological perspective / L.R. Huesmann and C.L. Podolski -- Lost youth and the futility of deterrence / Mark Fleisher -- Punishment, markets, and the American model : an essay on a new American dilemma / Marcellus Andrews -- States of insecurity : punishment, populism and contemporary political culture / Richard Sparks -- Penal theory and penal practice : a communitarian approach / Nicola Lacey -- Restorative justice and punishment / Richard Young and Carolyn Hoyle -- The necessity of chance / Sean McConville.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision, and to many this development appears to be qualitatively as well as quantitatively different. The causes of this development, its consequences and future course form the main point of departure for the contributors to this volume, who consider the changes that have contributed to these apparently fundamental shifts in the use of punishment. In this major new book contributors from a range of disciplines provide an integrated approach to a range of questions surrounding the use of punishment: In w