The issue of "punishment" is central to criminology. In this study the author reassesses the significant arguments involved. It ranges from a comparative analysis of penal policies in various countries to philosophical debates about whether punishment is compatible with a just social order. The author puts forward the notion of "redress" as a key concept that can considerably advance our understanding of the politics of punishment.
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Höhe: 216 mm
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978-0-04-445441-0 (9780044454410)
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The crisis in critical criminology; fuzzy morals and flaky politics - the coming out of critical criminology; explaining expansion - the politics of punishment; explaining contraction - the politics of bad conscience; penal abolition and sociological imagination - the transferability debate; the necessity of punishment in a just social order - the justice debate; institutionalization of socialist legality - popular justice in Cuba; towards a politics of redress.
