Punishment and Modern Society

Punishment and Modern Society

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In a brilliant synthesis of the work of Foucault, Durkheim, Weber, Kircheimer, and Marx, this book develops a completely new, comprehensive, and highly stimulating theory of punishment.

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Punishment and Modern Society by David Garland

Winner of the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, USA The first comprehensive account of the role of punishment in modern society, this book buils upon the work of Durkheim, Foucault, and others, and provides a fascinating interpretation of this complex social institution, showing how penal institutions interact with strategies of power, socio-economic structures, and cultural sensibilities.
This is a superbly intelligent study, without doubt the best yet written on a topic, penality, which the author has done so much to develop.. As a state of the art account it is unlikely to be bettered for many a year. * Rod Morgan, British Journal of Criminology *
an insightful critique of existing approaches to the theory of punishment * Harvard Law Review *
a landmark study * Andrew Rutherford, Legal Studies *
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ISBN 13 9780198762669
ISBN 10 0198762666
Title Punishment and Modern Society
Author David Garland
Series Clarendon Paperbacks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1991-10-03
Number of pages 320
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