Punitive States
Punishment and the Economy of Violence
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2021
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-904385-91-2 (ISBN)
Description
Are there distinctive postmodern forms of punishment? Is the contemporary 'punitive' turn in the United States a sign of things to come in Europe? Is modern rationality at odds with violence, or the means to applying violence systematically?
Punitive States links together these key contemporary debates in criminology, penology and social theory and offers an alternative analysis inspired by Georges Bataille and Rene Girard. The book concludes with three dramatic case studies that relate the foregoing arguments to contemporary cultural forms and political decisions.
Punitive States links together these key contemporary debates in criminology, penology and social theory and offers an alternative analysis inspired by Georges Bataille and Rene Girard. The book concludes with three dramatic case studies that relate the foregoing arguments to contemporary cultural forms and political decisions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904385-91-2 (9781904385912)
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Person
Simon Hallsworth is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Centre for Social and Evaluation Research, Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University.
Content
Introduction. Modernity, Violence and the Civilising Process. Modernity Reconsidered and Condemned. Reclaiming Modernity. Rethinking Violence in Modernity. The Case for a Postmodern Penality. State Violence, Masculinity and the Flight from the Feminine. A Honeymoon in Auschwitz. Monstrous Doubles