| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: the punishment response -- Punishment philosophies and types of sanctions -- Contemporary punishments in comparative perspective -- Punishment in American history -- The history of punishment in China -- Punishment under Islamic law -- Issues in the sociology of punishments |
| Summary |
"Informed by current scholarship, yet tailored to the needs of undergraduate students, this textbook presents a broad perspective on one of the most fundamental social practices. Punishment is the common response to crime and deviance in all societies. However, its particular form and purpose are also linked to specific structural features of these societies in a particular time and place. Through a comparative historical analysis, the authors identify and examine the sources of similarity and difference in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and nonlethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment.
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Punishment -- Cross-cultural studies
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Punishment -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Punishment
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Strafe
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Strafrecht
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Internationaler Vergleich
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Straffen.
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Penologie.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lu, Hong, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0511080506 |
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9780511080500 |
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9780511813801 |
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0511813805 |
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9780511079740 |
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0511079745 |
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