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Author : Austin Sarat
Release : 2015-06-05
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Punishment in Popular Culture by : Austin Sarat
Download or read book Punishment in Popular Culture written by Austin Sarat. This book was released on 2015-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.
Author : Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Release : 2015-06-05
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 218/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Punishment in Popular Culture by : Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Download or read book Punishment in Popular Culture written by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.. This book was released on 2015-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America’s distinctive approach to punishment and analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony, but in both “high” and “popular” culture iconography, in novels, television, and film. This book brings together distinguished scholars of punishment and experts in media studies in an unusual juxtaposition of disciplines and perspectives. Americans continue to lock up more people for longer periods of time than most other nations, to use the death penalty, and to racialize punishment in remarkable ways. How are these facts of American penal life reflected in the portraits of punishment that Americans regularly encounter on television and in film? What are the conventions of genre which help to familiarize those portraits and connect them to broader political and cultural themes? Do television and film help to undermine punishment's moral claims? And how are developments in the boarder political economy reflected in the ways punishment appears in mass culture? Finally, how are images of punishment received by their audiences? It is to these questions that Punishment in Popular Culture is addressed.
Author : Mary Welek Atwell
Release : 2004
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 115/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evolving Standards of Decency by : Mary Welek Atwell
Download or read book Evolving Standards of Decency written by Mary Welek Atwell. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Standards of Decency examines the ways in which popular culture portrays the death penalty. By analyzing literature and film, Atwell argues that capital punishment becomes much more complex when both offenders and victims are presented as fully developed individuals. Numerous books and films from the last several decades expose flaws in the criminal justice system and provide audiences with stories that raise questions about race, class, and actual innocence in the administration of the ultimate punishment. Although most people will not read legal briefs supporting or challenging the death penalty, many will see films or read novels that raise issues about its fairness. Themes and images gathered through popular culture may ultimately influence whether Americans continue to believe that capital punishment conforms to their evolving standards of decency and justice. Those studying justice issues, corrections, or capital punishment will find this an accessible and provocative work that places the stories read in novels or seen in movies in the context of the legal system that has the power of life and death.
Author : Michelle Brown
Release : 2009-10-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 45X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Culture of Punishment by : Michelle Brown
Download or read book The Culture of Punishment written by Michelle Brown. This book was released on 2009-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments. The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.
Author : Philip Smith
Release : 2008-03-15
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 101/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Punishment and Culture by : Philip Smith
Download or read book Punishment and Culture written by Philip Smith. This book was released on 2008-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Smith attacks the comfortable notion that punishment is about justice, reason and law. Instead, he argues that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process.
