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Questioning Punishment

by Henrique Carvalho , Anastasia Chamberlen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780367469252
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 228
  • Original Price: GBP 43.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 286 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criminology

This book questions punishment as concept, social phenomenon and contemporary practice. It unpacks punishment's nature and the assumptions that underpin it, examines its targets, objectives and implications, locates punishment and punitivity within their social contexts, and aims to unsettle the idea that there is something common-sensical, necessary and unavoidable about punitive justice.

Questioning Punishment develops its argument through an innovative structure organised around five central questions: what punishment is; who punishment's targets and subjects are; how punishment is perpetuated and experienced; when and where punishment unfolds and why we punish. It ends by considering the implications of this enquiry to understandings of punishment and broader pursuits of justice.

This book is essential reading for all those engaged with the sociology of punishment and prisons, criminal justice and theoretical criminology.

Henrique Carvalho is Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK.

Anastasia Chamberlen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Sociology Department, University of Warwick, UK.

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