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Informationen zum Autor Nick Smith is a bestselling author, film director, producer and actor who lives in Western New York. He is a Contingency Professor at SUNY Fredonia. Originally from Bristol, England, he trained at the BBC Natural History Unit and has since worked on over 100 movies and TV productions, including the horror movie 8 Graves (2020), fang-favourite comedy The Little Vampire (2000), and the action movie Cold Soldiers (2018). His books include Cloudwalking, American Spirit, Songs for Persephone, and non-fiction guides to screenwriting and movie marketing. Milk Treading, the first novel in his Whiskers in the Dark series, has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, translated into Italian, adapted into an Edinburgh Fringe Festival play, and praised by the New York Times, Tod Goldberg, Jilly Cooper and David Letterman. Klappentext This book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring about penance, and that this has been lost in the assembly line of mass incarceration. Zusammenfassung In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies! Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. This book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring about penance - something like apology - and this has been lost in the assembly line of mass incarceration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Categorical apologies revisited; Part I. The Penitent and the Penitentiary: Apologies in Criminal Law: 2. Against court ordered apologies; 3. Apology reductions in criminal law; Part II. Apologies in Civil Law: 4. The institutional framework: economic outcomes and non-economic values; 5. A practical framework for evaluating apologies in civil contexts.
