Pain and Retribution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pain and Retribution write by David Wilson. This book was released on 2014-03-15. Pain and Retribution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, the Tower of London is a tourist site, home only to the crown jewels, but not long ago the imposing structure held traitors, political prisoners, and more, often on their way to the chopping block. Even outside of this famous building, prisons have changed radically since the Norman Conquest in 1066. In the first book on the history of prisons in Britain, former prison governor and professor of criminology David Wilson offers unrivaled insight into the penal system in England, Scotland, and Wales, charting the rise and fall of forms of punishments that take place behind their walls. Pain and Retribution explores prisons as an institution and examines how they are designed, organized, and managed. Wilson reveals that prisons have to satisfy the demands of three interested parties: the public, from politicians and media commentators to everyday citizens; the prison staff; and the prisoners themselves. He shows how prevailing concerns and issues of the times allow one faction or another to have more power at varying points in history, and he considers how prisons are unable to satisfy all three at the same time—leading to the system being seen as a failure, despite rising numbers of prisoners and growing funds invested in keeping them incarcerated. With intriguing comparisons between the prisons of New York City and Britain and searching questions about the purposes of the current penal system, Pain and Retribution provides unparalleled access to prison landings, staffs, and the people behind the locked doors.
Love, Retribution and Pain
Love, Retribution and Pain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love, Retribution and Pain write by Danny Kemp. This book was released on 2014-11-18. Love, Retribution and Pain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of three stories based around the title, by Danny Kemp author of: The Desolate Garden and A Shudder From Heaven.
Cruel and Unusual
Cruel and Unusual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruel and Unusual write by Anne-Marie Cusac. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Cruel and Unusual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.
Just and Painful
Just and Painful - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just and Painful write by Graeme R. Newman. This book was released on 1983. Just and Painful available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Retribution
Retribution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Retribution write by Thom Brooks. This book was released on 2019-10-30. Retribution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Retribution is perhaps the most popular contemporary theory about punishment and has enjoyed enduring appeal as the oldest, even most venerable, penal theory with its strong ancient roots. Retribution is understood in many different ways, but the standard view of retribution is that punishment is justified where it is deserved and an offender should be punished in proportion to his desert. In this volume, retributivism is examined from various critical perspectives, including its diversity, relation with desert, the link between desert and proportionality, retributivist emotions and the idea of mercy. The theory of retribution has been the subject of a revival of interest in recent years and the essays selected for this volume are the leading works on retribution from the dominant international figures in the field.
