Discourses on Violence Amp Puniscb

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Krešimir Petkovi¿ is assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kre¿imir Petkovi¿, Kreesimir Petkoviac, Petkovic, Kre¿imir Petkovic, Kresimir Petkovic, Krešimir Petkovic
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498513449
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1344-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Criminal law & procedure, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Crime & criminology, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Criminal law: procedure & offences