Now a classic in its own right, first published in 1976, still as relevant today as it ever was. The only thorough socio-historical account of punishment that links criminal punishment to other major punitive forces in Western culture. Examines the psychological, social, and cultural roots of punishment in a rich historical context.

The punishment response

Newman, Graeme R.

Lippincott

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Understanding Violence

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

J.B. Lippincott Company

Comparative Deviance: Perception and Law in Six Cultures

Dustjacket tattered at edges. Front hinge cracked.

Comparative deviance: Perception and law in six cultures

Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.

This book provides a broad and yet in-depth overview on migration and crime. It includes classic pieces from different disciplines (such as criminal justice, sociology, psychology and political science) that examine a variety of topics (such as hate crimes, organized crime, trafficking, victimization issues, reporting issues, policing and incarceration issues and conceptual paradigms) in a variety of locations (such as the USA, Israel, Europe, Japan and Jamaica) with both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Crime and Immigration (International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second Series)

Social Sciences

Routledge

Crime and justice in America, 1776-1976 (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 423)

American Academy of Political and Social Science

Vengeance: The fight against injustice (Expanded Edition)

Marongiu, Pietro

Harrow and Heston

<p>Now a classic in its own right, first published in 1976, still as relevant today as it ever was. The only thorough socio-historical account of punishment that links criminal punishment to other major punitive forces in Western culture. Examines the psychological, social, and cultural roots of punishment in a rich historical context.</p>

Punishment Response

Harrow & Heston

Crime and Immigration

"Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in perception of deviance across all cultures. Within the countries studied in this volume, Geraeme Newman discovers that the strength of religious belief and urban rural background accounted for major differences in the perception of deviance - when differences were identified.Contrary to popular academic opinion in the United States, Newman finds that those countries with the most liberal laws on deviance (i.e., the least punitive sanctions) are also those highly economically developed and least totalitarian (United States and Italy). But when public opinion is considered, the public favors harsher punishments than the law provides. In contrast, in the developing countries of India, Iran and Indonesia, where penal sanctions are more severe, public opinion is much more liberal. The crucial question is the role criminal law plays in the process of modernization: whether law is a stable cultural influence, round which public opinion wavers in a startling fashion, depending on the stage of modernization.These findings challenge many assumptions of conflict theory in sociology, of cultural relativism in anthropology, and of ethical relativism in moral philosophy. All findings are examined in relation to research on modernization, social development, and the evolution of law. These fundamental issues are thus important to many different disciplines across the board.

Wolfgang, Marvin E.

The Punishment Response

<p>Punishment occupies a central place in our lives and attitudes. We suffer a profound ambivalence about its moral consequences. Persons who have been punished or are liable to be punished have long objected to the legitimacy of punishment. We are all objects of punishment, yet we are also its users. Our ambivalence is so profound that not only do we punish others, but we punish ourselves as well. We view those who submit too willingly to punishment as "obedient" verging on the groveling coward, and we view those who resist punishment as "disobedient," rebels. In The Punishment Response Graeme Newman describes the uses of punishment and how these uses change over time.Some argue that punishment promotes discrimination and divisiveness in society. Others claim that it is through punishment that order and legitimacy are upheld. It is important that punishment is understood as neither one nor the other; it is both. This point, simple though it seems, has never really been addressed. This is why Newman claims we wax and wane in our uses of punishment; why punishing institutions are clogged by bureaucracy; why the death penalty comes and goes like the tide.Graeme Newman emphasizes that punishment is a cultural process and also a mechanism of particular institutions, of which criminal law is but one. Because academic discussions of punishment have been confined to legalistic preoccupations, much of the policy and justification of punishment have been based on discussions of extreme cases. The use of punishment in the sphere of crime is an extreme unto itself, since crime is a minor aspect of daily life. The uses of punishment, and the moral justifications for punishment within the family and school have rarely been considered, certainly not to the exhaustive extent that criminal law has been in this outstanding work.</p>

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