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Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence
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Crimes of punishment [electronic resource] : America's culture of violence / Theodore L. Dorpat.
ISBN
9780875865638 (trade paper : alk. paper)
9780875865645 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780875865652 (e-book)
Published
New York : Algora Pub., c2007.
Physical Description
xvi, 290 p. ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 21, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-276) and index.
Contents
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.
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