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UNINA9911154671603321 |
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Autore |
Welch Michael <1960-> |
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Ironies of imprisonment / / Michael Welch |
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Thousand Oaks, CA, : Sage Publications, c2005 |
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9781452237398 |
1452237395 |
9781322283265 |
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9781412904803 |
1412904803 |
9781452222226 |
1452222223 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 239 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Imprisonment - United States |
Prisons - United States |
Corrections - United States |
Criminal justice, Administration of - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-229) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Discovery of the Penitentiary; Chapter 3 - Critical Penology; Chapter 4 - War on Drugs and Just War Theory; Chapter 5 - Health Care Crisis Behind Bars; Chapter 6 - Reproducing Prison Violence; Chapter 7 - Ironies of Capital Punishment; Chapter 8 - War on Terror and the Misuse of Detention; Chapter 9 - Punitive Profit; Chapter 10 - Confronting Corrections; Cases; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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'Ironies of Imprisonment' examines an array of problems confronting correctional programmes & policies. Michael Welch challenges the prevailing logic of mass incarceration & traces the ironies of imprisonment to their root causes, manifesting in social, political, economic & racial inequality. |
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UNINA9911154177203321 |
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Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / / edited by Daniel R. Schwartz and Zeev Weiss in collaboration with Ruth A. Clements |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 |
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1-283-35678-3 |
9786613356789 |
90-04-21744-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (564 p.) |
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Ancient Judaism and early Christianity = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, , 1871-6636 ; ; v. 78 |
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6,12 |
BC 7550 |
BC 8710 |
BD 3720 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SchwartzDaniel R |
WeissZeev <1959-> |
ClementsRuth A |
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Judaism - History - To 70 A.D |
Jews - History - To 70 A.D |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"This volume presents revised versions of lectures given in January 2009 at a Jerusalem symposium sponsored by Hebrew University's Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies"--Preface. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Sons of Aaron and disciples of Aaron : priests and rabbis before and after 70 -- pt. 2. "The place" and other places -- pt. 3. Art and magic -- pt. 4. Sacred texts : exegesis and liturgy -- pt. 5. Communal definition-- Pompey, Jesus, or Titus : who made a difference?. |
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The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which put an end to sacrificial worship in Israel, is usually assumed to constitute a major caesura in Jewish history. But how important was it? What really changed due to 70? What, in contrast, was already changing before 70 or remained basically – or “virtually” -- unchanged despite it? How do the Diaspora, which was long used to Temple-less Judaism, and early |
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Christianity, which was born around the same time, fit in? This Scholion Library volume presents twenty papers given at an international conference in Jerusalem in which scholars assessed the significance of 70 for their respective fields of specialization, including Jewish liturgy, law, literature, magic, art, institutional history, and early Christianity. |
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