Discourses on violence and punishment : probing the extremes / Krešimir Petković.
2017
K5103 .D57 2017 (Mapit)
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Discourses on violence and punishment : probing the extremes / Krešimir Petković.
Imprint
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Description
xii, 597 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction on probing the extremes
Death penalty : political theory of extreme punishment
A history of violence: changing conceptions of punishment in time and some attempts to explain them
Comparative politics of punishment : stories from the penal peripheries
Punishment and power : if power punishes, does absolute power punish absolutely?
Punishment and the sacred : how do great religions punish?
Punishment and fiction : images of violence in literature and film
Criminology : politics in the science of crime
Dismantling sorrow.
Death penalty : political theory of extreme punishment
A history of violence: changing conceptions of punishment in time and some attempts to explain them
Comparative politics of punishment : stories from the penal peripheries
Punishment and power : if power punishes, does absolute power punish absolutely?
Punishment and the sacred : how do great religions punish?
Punishment and fiction : images of violence in literature and film
Criminology : politics in the science of crime
Dismantling sorrow.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version: Petković, Krešimir, 1982- author. Discourses on violence and punishment Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
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K5103 .D57 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781498513449 hardcover alkaline paper
1498513441 hardcover alkaline paper
1498513441 hardcover alkaline paper
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