Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780521605168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 254 str.

MR Terance D. Miethe; Hong Lu

Opis

This book identifies and examines the sources of similarities and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place. The authors survey punishment responses to crime and deviance across different regions of the world and in specific countries like the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia.

Recenzje

"...the many lessons for Canadian criminologists contained in this superb text permit me to conclude that it is quite a "gem." Canadian Journal of Criminology and criminal Justice, Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the punishment response; 2. Punishment philosophies and types of sanctions; 3. Contemporary punishments in comparative perspective; 4. Punishment in American history; 5. The history of punishment in China; 6. Punishment under Islamic law; 7. Issues in the sociology of punishments.