The Powers That Punish

Author : Charles Bright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047202311X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Powers that Punish written by Charles Bright and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a carceral regime was organized and maintained, how prisoners were treated and involved in the creation of a regime of order and how penal practices were explained and defended in public. In addition, it is a meditation upon punishment in modern society and a critical engagement with prevailing theories of punishment coming out of liberal, Marxist and post structuralist traditions. Deploying theory critically in a historic narrative, it applies new, relational theories of power to political institutions and practices. Finally, in studying the history of the Jackson prison, Bright provides a rich account, full of villains and a few heroes, of state politics in Michigan during a period of rapid transition between the 1920s to the 1950s. The book will be of direct relevance to criminologists and scholars of punishment, and to historians concerned with the history of punishment and prisons in the United States. It will also be useful to political scientists and historians concerned with exploring new approaches to the study of power and with the transformation of state politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Finally Bright tells a story which will fascinate students of modern Michigan history. Charles Bright is a historian and Lecturer at the Residential College of the University of Michigan.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819299
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385413036
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Judges to Punish for Contempt of Court, as Exemplified by the Case of the High Sheriff of Dublin, 1882 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Gillian Murray Kendall
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636794
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Power and Punishment written by Gillian Murray Kendall and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume demonstrate how effectively different -- indeed seemingly contradictory -- theoretical paradigms can work with Shakespeare's plays to excavate issues of power and punishment.

Author : Joe Sim
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 076196004X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishment and Prisons written by Joe Sim and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades, through a critical analysis of the relationship between penal policy and state power. Exploring the contested histories of punishment that are prominent in criminology, and its development in penal policy, the book analyzes four key dimensions of modern penal trends continuity and discontinuity in penal policy and practice, reform and rehabilitation, contesting penal power, and abolitionism. Articulate, innovative, and theoretically informed, Punishment and Prisons offers a critical overview of contemporary penal politics that will prove a compelling addition to the criminological library.

Author : Adrian Howe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134941323
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punish and Critique written by Adrian Howe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Political economies of punishment 2. 'New histories of punishment regimes 3. The Foucault Effect: from penology to penality 4. Feminist analytical approaches to women's imprisonment 5. Postmodern feminism and the question of penalty 6. Towards a postmodern penal politic? Bibliography

Author : Keally McBride
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069828
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishment and Political Order written by Keally McBride and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-06-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Author : Cyndi Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096817
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishment in America written by Cyndi Banks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Salem witch trials to death row, this work is a gripping analysis of the evolution of punishment practices, policies, and problems in America. From Puritan ducking stools to boot camps and supermax prisons, Punishment in America investigates the evolution of punishment in the United States. Intriguing inquiries into penitentiaries, parole, capital punishment, and other sanctions reveal how the rationales behind them—retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence—reflect changes in society, culture, and values. Reaching beyond the typical focus on prisons and incarceration to extralegal lynchings and vigilante operations and the treatment of the poor and the mentally challenged, this remarkable review also explores the impact of stricter laws on pedophiles and drug offenders and the effect of three-strikes legislation and truth in sentencing. This thought-provoking work will help readers understand the conflicting roles that punishment has played in delivering justice and promoting rehabilitation.

Author : Daniel V. Botsman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691130302
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan written by Daniel V. Botsman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world. While there is no denying the ferocity of many of the penal practices in use during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), this book begins by showing that these formed part of a sophisticated system of order that did have its limits. Botsman then demonstrates that although significant innovations occurred later in the period, they did not fit smoothly into the "modernization" process. Instead, he argues, the Western powers forced a break with the past by using the specter of Oriental barbarism to justify their own aggressive expansion into East Asia. The ensuing changes were not simply imposed from outside, however. The Meiji regime soon realized that the modern prison could serve not only as a symbol of Japan's international progress but also as a powerful domestic tool. The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire.

Author : Christopher E. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815325734
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Punishment written by Christopher E. Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.