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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawi
Punishment and Civilization
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Pages: 227
Authors: John Pratt
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-07-10 - Publisher: SAGE

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`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various n
Punishment and Welfare
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Pages: 296
Authors: David Garland
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-30 - Publisher: Quid Pro Books

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First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today’s sociology of punishment. It is now repu
Discipline and Punish
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Authors: Michel Foucault
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A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the a
Peculiar Institution
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: David Garland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punis