Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective - Softcover

Miethe, Terance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521605164 ISBN 13: 9780521605168

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Punishment is the common response to crime and deviance in all societies. However, its particular form and purpose are also linked to specific features of the structure of these societies at a particular time and place. Through a comparative historical analysis of punishment, this 2005 book is designed to identify and examine the sources of similarity and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place. We will look closely at punishment responses to crime and deviance across different regions of the world and in specific countries like the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia. It is hoped that the reader will gain an appreciation for both the universal and context-specific nature of punishment and its use for purposes of social control, social change, and the elimination of threat to the prevailing authorities.

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Review:

"...the many lessons for Canadian criminologists contained in this superb text permit me to conclude that it is quite a "gem." Canadian Journal of Criminology and criminal Justice, Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice

Book Description:

This 2005 book is designed to identify and examine the sources of similarity and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521605164
• ISBN 13: 9780521605168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252