From Crime to Punishment
Author : David Perrier
Publisher : Thomson Carswell
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780459283377
The Immorality of Punishment
Author : Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1460401093
Book Description
In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally repugnant, no matter how vile the behaviour that is its target. Despite the fact that it may be difficult to imagine a state functioning at all, let alone well, without having recourse to punishing those who break its laws, Zimmerman makes a timely and compelling case for the view that we must seek and put into practice alternative means of preventing crime and promoting social stability.
The Punishment
Author : Doris Shannon
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 1982-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780449245019
Book Description
The Punishment
Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0300252471
Book Description
An innocent man’s gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the author’s traumatic experience, written with a memoirist’s immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began to secretly write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born.
The Punishment She Deserves
Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525954341
Book Description
The cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned when one of its most revered and respected citizensIan Druitt, the local deaconis accused of a serious crime. Then, while in police custody, Ian is found dead. Did he kill himself? Or was he murdered? A masterful work of suspense, The Punishment She Deserves sets Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Inspector Thomas Lynley against one of their most intricate cases. Fans of the longtime series will love the many characters from Elizabeth Georges previous novels who join Lynley and Havers, and readers new to the series will quickly see why she is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of our time.
The Death of Punishment
Author : Robert Blecker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137381337
Book Description
For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours over twenty-five years inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, the history and philosophy professor exposes the perversity of justice: Inside prison, ironically, it's nobody's job to punish. Thus the worst criminals often live the best lives. The Death of Punishment challenges the reader to refine deeply held beliefs on life and death as punishment that flare up with every news story of a heinous crime. It argues that society must redesign life and death in prison to make the punishment more nearly fit the crime. It closes with the final irony: If we make prison the punishment it should be, we may well abolish the very death penalty justice now requires.
The Rationale of Punishment
Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1830
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
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Invisible Punishment
Author : Meda Chesney-Lind
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 1595587365
Book Description
In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.
The Punishment of Virtue
Author : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702235887
Book Description
Punishment Without Crime
Author : Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 0465093809
Book Description
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans -- most of them poor and people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
