Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective

✍ Scribed by Terance D. Miethe, Hong Lu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book identifies and examines the sources of similarities and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place. The authors survey punishment responses to crime and deviance across different regions of the world and in specific countries like the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Description......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Figures and Tables......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: The Punishment Response......Page 14
Punishment Philosophies and Types of Sanctions......Page 28
Contemporary Punishments in a Comparative Perspective......Page 63
Punishment in American History......Page 95
The History of Punishment in China......Page 128
Punishment Under Islamic Law......Page 168
Issues in the Sociology of Punishments......Page 207
References......Page 230
Author Index......Page 244
Subject Index......Page 248

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