Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence

This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dorpat, Theodore L. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Pub c2007.
Edición:1st ed
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  • A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment
  • Punishment and the cycle of violence
  • The effects of corporal punishment on children
  • Punishments and perils in today's prisons
  • Prisons are "factories of crime"
  • The scapegoating of prisoners
  • The process of criminalization of prisoners--a relational perspective
  • The limitations of prison reform
  • Arguments for and against the death penalty
  • Is there a moral justification for punishment?
  • Does incarceration deter the offender from committing further crimes?
  • Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment
  • Why incarcerate women?
  • Emotional abuse
  • Social systems of domination and punishment
  • The sociopathology of the prison system
  • Crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich--a comparison
  • A nonviolent approach to communicating and relating to others
  • On the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches in groups
  • Restorative justice--a new form of nonpunitive justice social injustice
  • Domestic abuse--a comparison between the retributive justice and restorative justice approaches
  • Restorative justice and retributive justice--a comparison.