The use of punishment / / edited by Sean McConville

• Pubblicazione: Cullompton ; ; Portland, : Willan, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.6
• Soggetto topico: Punishment; Peines
• Altri autori: McConvilleSean
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The use of punishment
• ISBN: 1-134-00042-1; 1-134-00035-9; 1-281-33198-8; 9786611331986; 1-84392-490-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825055203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II