Crimes of punishment
Subtitle: America's culture of violence
By: Theodore L. Dorpat.
Publisher: Algora Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780875865638; 9780875865645
Subjects: Criminal psychology; Punishment (Psychology); Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects; Behavior therapy; Violence -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment; title: Punishment and the cycle of violence; title: The effects of corporal punishment on children; title: Punishments and perils in today's prisons; title: Prisons are "factories of crime"; title: The scapegoating of prisoners; title: The process of criminalization of prisoners; title: a relational perspective; title: The limitations of prison reform; title: Arguments for and against the death penalty; title: Is there a moral justification for punishment?; title: Does incarceration deter the offender from committing further crimes?; title: Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment; title: Why incarcerate women?; title: Emotional abuse; title: Social systems of domination and punishment; title: The sociopathology of the prison system; title: Crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich; title: a comparison; title: A nonviolent approach to communicating and relating to others; title: On the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches in groups; title: Restorative justice; title: a new form of nonpunitive justice social injustice; title: Domestic abuse; title: a comparison between the retributive justice and restorative justice approaches; title: Restorative justice and retributive justice; title: a comparison.