Questioning Punishment

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-46925-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

This book questions punishment as concept, social phenomenon and contemporary practice. It unpacks punishment’s nature and the assumptions that underpin it, examines its targets, objectives and implications, locates punishment and punitivity within their social contexts, and aims to unsettle the idea that there is something common-sensical, necessary and unavoidable about punitive justice.

Questioning Punishment develops its argument through an innovative structure organised around five central questions: what punishment is; who punishment’s targets and subjects are; how punishment is perpetuated and experienced; when and where punishment unfolds and why we punish. It ends by considering the implications of this enquiry to understandings of punishment and broader pursuits of justice.

This book is essential reading for all those engaged with the sociology of punishment and prisons, criminal justice and theoretical criminology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carvalho, Henrique

Chamberlen, Anastasia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1.What Is Punishment? 2.Who Are the Targets and the Subjects of Punishment? 3.How Do We Punish and How Does It Feel? 4.When and Where Does Punishment Unfold? 5.Why Do We Punish? 6.So What? The Pathology of Punishment and the Promise of Justice

Über Autor(innen)

Henrique Carvalho is Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK.

Anastasia Chamberlen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Sociology Department, University of Warwick, UK.