Discourses on Violence and Punishment
Probing the Extremes
Seiten
2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1344-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1344-9 (ISBN)
This book probes the extreme variation in discourses on violence and punishment. Its comprehensive examination brings together normative political-theoretical discourses on punishment, historical changes in violence and punishment, and perspectives on punishment from political powers, world religions, literature and film, criminology, and theodicy.
This book brings together various discourses concerned with violence and punishment, paying special attention to the extreme variations of these phenomena. Starting from a narrow definition of violence as an infliction of physical harm, paired with a broad discussion of its causes and a wide definition of punishment as an authority claim to retribution or reform, the book maps and interprets political-theoretical discourses on the death penalty, historical explanations of the changes of violence and punishment, and comparative differences in punishment. It also puts violence and punishment into perspective with political power, world religions, literature and film, and criminological theory. The final chapter changes the perspective taken in the bulk of the book, dealing with discourses of theodicy in the face of cases of extreme violence and suffering. By juxtaposing many unusual discourses, the book attempts to fulfill three primary functions. First, it skeptically probes numerous discourses explaining and legitimizing violence and punishment in the light of extreme cases. The book is a map of violence and punishment. Second, it invites the reader to confront, choose, and combine these discourses when thinking about facts and norms of punishment. The book provides an analytical toolbox for research of violence and punishment. Third, the book presents wider sense-seeking strategies employed to deal with suffering such as irony, redemption, or rationalization.
This book brings together various discourses concerned with violence and punishment, paying special attention to the extreme variations of these phenomena. Starting from a narrow definition of violence as an infliction of physical harm, paired with a broad discussion of its causes and a wide definition of punishment as an authority claim to retribution or reform, the book maps and interprets political-theoretical discourses on the death penalty, historical explanations of the changes of violence and punishment, and comparative differences in punishment. It also puts violence and punishment into perspective with political power, world religions, literature and film, and criminological theory. The final chapter changes the perspective taken in the bulk of the book, dealing with discourses of theodicy in the face of cases of extreme violence and suffering. By juxtaposing many unusual discourses, the book attempts to fulfill three primary functions. First, it skeptically probes numerous discourses explaining and legitimizing violence and punishment in the light of extreme cases. The book is a map of violence and punishment. Second, it invites the reader to confront, choose, and combine these discourses when thinking about facts and norms of punishment. The book provides an analytical toolbox for research of violence and punishment. Third, the book presents wider sense-seeking strategies employed to deal with suffering such as irony, redemption, or rationalization.
Krešimir Petković is assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Chapter 1 Death Penalty: Political Theory of Extreme Punishment
Chapter 2 A History of Violence: Changing Conceptions of Punishment in Time and Some Attempts to Explain Them
Chapter 3 Comparative Politics of Punishment: Stories from the Penal Peripheries
Chapter 4 Punishment and Power: If Power Punishes, Does Absolute Power Punish Absolutely?
Chapter 5 Punishment and the Sacred: How Do Great Religions Punish?
Chapter 6 Punishment and Fiction: Images of Violence in Literature and Film
Chapter 7 Criminology: Politics in the Science of Crime
Chapter 8 Dismantling Sorrow
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2018 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 161 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 1007 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-1344-1 / 1498513441 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-1344-9 / 9781498513449 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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