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Autore: | Dorpat Theodore L |
Titolo: | Crimes of punishment : America's culture of violence / / Theodore L. Dorpat |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Algora Pub., c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.973 |
Soggetto topico: | Criminal psychology |
Punishment (Psychology) | |
Imprisonment - Psychological aspects | |
Behavior therapy | |
Violence - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-276) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment -- Punishment and the cycle of violence -- The effects of corporal punishment on children -- Punishments and perils in today's prisons -- Prisons are "factories of crime" -- The scapegoating of prisoners -- The process of criminalization of prisoners--a relational perspective -- The limitations of prison reform -- |
Arguments for and against the death penalty -- Is there a moral justification for punishment? -- Does incarceration deter the offender from committing further crimes? -- Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment -- Why incarcerate women? -- Emotional abuse -- Social systems of domination and punishment -- The sociopathology of the prison system -- | |
Crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich--a comparison -- A nonviolent approach to communicating and relating to others -- On the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches in groups -- Restorative justice--a new form of nonpunitive justice social injustice -- Domestic abuse--a comparison between the retributive justice and restorative justice approaches -- Restorative justice and retributive justice--a comparison. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination of the author s fifty-year career as a psychoanalyst, forensic psychologist and scholar, this wide-ranging work identifies the origins of violence and investigates the surprising consequences of punishment from a multitude of perspectives. In his treatment of the topic, Dr. Dorpat utilizes scientifi |
Titolo autorizzato: | Crimes of punishment |
ISBN: | 9786611398323 |
1-281-39832-2 | |
0-87586-565-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811485203321 |
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