The Capacity To Punish

Author : Henry N. Pontell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 0253203368

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The Capacity to Punish by Henry N. Pontell Pdf

This book examines the relationship between crime, demographic characteristics, criminal justice resources, court processing and final sanctioning outcomes at the court level in the U.S. in the context of deterrence theory. It concludes that current criminal justice practices, especially the extremely low probability of certain and severe punishment, make the deterrent effect of punishment minimal under the current system of criminal justice. Court caseloads, influenced particularly be the degree of inequality in the population, appear to be pushing down the formal penalty structures, and hence the probability of sanction. The inability of courts to produce severe and certain sanctions is also linked to the overfunding of police relative to other criminal justice agencies, especially the office of the prosecutor. Putting more cops on the beat might actually lead to further erosion of the deterrent effect of punishment, as more violators are pushed through the 'revolving door' of the courts.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291

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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Pdf

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 : David Garland,Peter Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Punishment
ISBN : NWU:35556033065772

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The Power to Punish by David Garland,Peter Young Pdf

Author : Charles Bright
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472023110

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The Powers that Punish by Charles Bright Pdf

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 : Linda D. Molm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521562904

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Coercive Power in Social Exchange by Linda D. Molm Pdf

Coercive Power in Social Exchange describes the progression and results of a decade-long program of experimental research on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditionally excluded punishment and coercion from the scope of their analyses; Molm examines whether exchange theory can be expanded to include both reward and coercive power. Working within the framework of Emerson's power-dependence theory, but also drawing on the decision theory concepts of strategic action and loss aversion, Molm develops and tests a theory of coercion in social exchange that emphasizes the interdependence of these two bases of power. Her work shows that reward power and coercive power are fundamentally different, not only in their effects on behavior but also in the structural incentive to use power and the risks of power use. When exchanges are nonnegotiated and secured by the "shadow of the future", rather than by binding agreements, dependence both encourages and constrains the use of coercion.

Author : Rob Canton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137449047

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Why Punish? by Rob Canton Pdf

Why do we punish? Is it because only punishment can achieve justice for victims and 'right the wrong' of a crime? Or is it justified because it reduces crime, by deterring potential offenders, offering rehabilitative treatment to others and incapacitating the most dangerous? The complex answers to this enduring question vary across time and place, and are directly linked to people's personal, cultural, social, religious and ethical commitments and even their sense of identity. This unique introduction to the philosophy of punishment provides a systematic analysis of the themes of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation and restorative justice. Integrating philosophical, sociological, political and ethical perspectives, it provides a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of the purposes, meanings and justifications of punishment for crime and the extent to which punishment does, could or should live up to what it claims to achieve. Why Punish? challenges criminology and criminal justice students as well as policy makers, judges, magistrates and criminal justice practitioners to think more critically about the role of punishment and the moral principles that underpin it. Bridging abstract theory with the realities of practice, Rob Canton asks what better punishment would look like and how it can be achieved.

Author : Luise Müller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009378123

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The Right to Punish by Luise Müller Pdf

What gives international courts the authority to punish individuals for international crimes? Through the lens of political philosophy, Luise Müller provides an original perspective on the justification of the authority of international criminal courts and tribunals. She argues that institutions of international criminal justice are permitted to pierce the sovereignty of states in order to punish high-profile politicians for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other mass human rights violations. Their right to punish is justified by virtue of their function to deter mass violations of fundamental human rights. However, to legitimately exercise that right, international criminal justice institutions must fulfil two conditions: first, they must conduct criminal trials with the highest level of fairness; second, they must treat those who are subject to their authority as equals. This last condition can be satisfied by international criminal justice institutions by including procedures of democratic decision-making and democratic accountability.

Author : Elise Bant,Wayne Courtney,James Goudkamp,Jeannie Marie Paterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509939169

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Punishment and Private Law by Elise Bant,Wayne Courtney,James Goudkamp,Jeannie Marie Paterson Pdf

Does private law punish? This collection answers this complex but compelling question. Lawyers from across the spectrum of the law (contract, tort, restitution) explore exactly how it punishes wrong doing. These leading voices ask whether that punishment is effective and what its societal role might be. Taking the discussion out of the technical and into a broader realms of a wider purpose, it is both compelling and thought-provoking.

Author : Alejandro Chehtman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199603404

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The Philosophical Foundations of Extraterritorial Punishment by Alejandro Chehtman Pdf

1. Rights, Individuals, and States; 2. An Interest-based Justification for the Right to Punish; 3. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Municipal Crimes; 4. A Theory of International Crimes; 5. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over International Crimes; 6. Legitimate Authority and Extraterritorial Punishment; 7. Conclusion.

Author : J. Ryberg,J. Corlett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230290624

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Punishment and Ethics by J. Ryberg,J. Corlett Pdf

A collection of original contributions by philosophers working in the ethics of punishment, gathering new perspectives on various challenging topics including punishment and forgiveness, dignity, discrimination, public opinion, torture, rehabilitation, and restitution.

Author : Claire Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134973842

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Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture by Claire Grant Pdf

Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Grant elaborates on new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment. In doing so, the book discusses: teletechnologies, punishment and new collectivities the cultural politics of victims rights discourses on foreigners, crime and diaspora terror, the death penalty and the spectacle of violence. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture makes a timely and important contribution to debate on the possibilities of justice in the media age. This book is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers interested in the area of crime and punishment.

Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139827287

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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan by Patricia Springborg Pdf

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

Author : Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770481497

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The Immorality of Punishment by Michael J. Zimmerman Pdf

In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally repugnant, no matter how vile the behaviour that is its target. Despite the fact that it may be difficult to imagine a state functioning at all, let alone well, without having recourse to punishing those who break its laws, Zimmerman makes a timely and compelling case for the view that we must seek and put into practice alternative means of preventing crime and promoting social stability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : UOM:35112100240763

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Criminal Law Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060877987

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The Criminal Law Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.