This book probes the extreme variation in discourses on violence and punishment. Its comprehensive examination brings together normative political-theoretical discourses on punishment, historical changes in violence and punishment, and perspectives on punishment from political powers, world religions, literature and film, criminology, and theodicy.
This book probes the extreme variation in discourses on violence and punishment. Its comprehensive examination brings together normative political-theoretical discourses on punishment, historical changes in violence and punishment, and perspectives on punishment from political powers, world religions, literature and film, criminology, and theodicy.
Kreimir Petkovi¿ is assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Death Penalty: Political Theory of Extreme Punishment Chapter 2 A History of Violence: Changing Conceptions of Punishment in Time and Some Attempts to Explain Them Chapter 3 Comparative Politics of Punishment: Stories from the Penal Peripheries Chapter 4 Punishment and Power: If Power Punishes, Does Absolute Power Punish Absolutely? Chapter 5 Punishment and the Sacred: How Do Great Religions Punish? Chapter 6 Punishment and Fiction: Images of Violence in Literature and Film Chapter 7 Criminology: Politics in the Science of Crime Chapter 8 Dismantling Sorrow
Chapter 1 Death Penalty: Political Theory of Extreme Punishment Chapter 2 A History of Violence: Changing Conceptions of Punishment in Time and Some Attempts to Explain Them Chapter 3 Comparative Politics of Punishment: Stories from the Penal Peripheries Chapter 4 Punishment and Power: If Power Punishes, Does Absolute Power Punish Absolutely? Chapter 5 Punishment and the Sacred: How Do Great Religions Punish? Chapter 6 Punishment and Fiction: Images of Violence in Literature and Film Chapter 7 Criminology: Politics in the Science of Crime Chapter 8 Dismantling Sorrow
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