Punishment and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Philip Smith is associate professor of sociology at Yale University and the author of Cultural Theory: An Introduction and Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez , the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine. Zusammenfassung Denies that punishment is about justice! reason! and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Smith, Smith Philip
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9780226766102
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76610-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment