Discourses on violence and punishment : probing the extremes /: probing the extremes. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Krešimir Petković.
• Authors: Petković, Krešimir, 1982-
• Contents: <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 1 Death Penalty: Political Theory of Extreme Punishment ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 2 A History of Violence: Changing Conceptions of Punishment in Time and Some Attempts to Explain Them ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 3 Comparative Politics of Punishment: Stories from the Penal Peripheries ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 4 Punishment and Power: If Power Punishes, Does Absolute Power Punish Absolutely? ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 5 Punishment and the Sacred: How Do Great Religions Punish? ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 6 Punishment and Fiction: Images of Violence in Literature and Film ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 7 Criminology: Politics in the Science of Crime ; <span style="line-height:2">Chapter 8 Dismantling Sorrow
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.601; Punishment -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498513456
• Related ISBNs: 9781498513449
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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