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• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 05 June 2015

Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.

• Publisher : Peter Lang
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• Release Date : 05 June 2024

The Supreme Court has looked to «evolving standards of decency» in determining whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Evolving

• Publisher : NYU Press
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• Release Date : 05 June 2015

The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment

• Publisher : NYU Press
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• Release Date : 15 October 2009

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 April 2023

Art generally imitates life. This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2005

Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that criminal justice is a key

• Publisher : Willan
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• Release Date : 13 May 2013

This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 01 October 2020

This innovative introductory textbook to the growing field of cultural criminology examines the importance of understanding the cultural contexts in which crime and crime control take place. It describes and

• Publisher : Vintage
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• Release Date : 18 April 2012

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence

• Publisher : NYU Press
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• Release Date : 05 June 2024

From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not