The use of punishment
By: edited by Seán McConville.
Contributors: McConville, Seán.
Publisher: Willan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cullompton; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Punishment.; Peines.
Description: In recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision. This volume considers the causes of this development, its consequences and future course.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Christian approach to punishment / Alan Duce; title: Punishment : a psychological perspective / L.R. Huesmann and C.L. Podolski; title: Lost youth and the futility of deterrence / Mark Fleisher; title: Punishment, markets, and the American model : an essay on a new American dilemma / Marcellus Andrews; title: States of insecurity : punishment, populism and contemporary political culture / Richard Sparks; title: Penal theory and penal practice : a communitarian approach / Nicola Lacey; title: Restorative justice and punishment / Richard Young and Carolyn Hoyle; title: The necessity of chance / Sean McConville.