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Informationen zum Autor Joshua Nichols is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and a Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. Amy Swiffen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Klappentext What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? Clearly, for the use of violence to be legitimate it must be subject to limitation. The difficulty is that the determination of this limit should be objective, but it is not. It is this contestability of the limit that this book addresses. Zusammenfassung What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? Clearly, for the use of violence to be legitimate it must be subject to limitation. The difficulty is that the determination of this limit should be objective, but it is not. It is this contestability of the limit that this book addresses. Inhaltsverzeichnis "It’s Not Just a Good Idea, It’s the Law": Rationality, Force, and Changing Minds Mark Kingwell Cruel and thus not Unusual: Jacques Derrida’s Seminar on the Death Penalty Michael Naas The Violent Rhetoric of Accusation: Cicero and the Marcus Ameleus Scaurus Case G. Pavlich The Colonialism of Incarceration Robert Nichols "Ran away from her Master…a Negroe Girl named Thursday": Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, and Trauma in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements Charmaine Nelson The Work of Death: Massacre and Retribution in Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831 Christopher Tomlins Civilising Missions and Humanitarian Interventions: into the Laws and Territories of First Nations Irene Watson The Rhetoric of Abolition: Continuity and Change in the Struggle Against America’s Death Penalty, 1900-2010 Austin Sarat, Robert Kermes, Adelyn Curran, Margaret Kiley, Keshav Pant "Too wicked to die": The enduring legacy of humane reforms to solitary confinement Kelly Struthers Munford, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, and Alex Hunter Nonviolent communion versus medieval ships of fools: Engaged-citizenry alternatives to Europe’s war on refugees Pablo Ouziel ...
