The Politics Of Punishment
Waterside Press
ISBN13:
9781909976337
$42.75
This re-issue with a new Preface of a classic work by John Hostettler looks at the political and other social dynamics behind law, order and punishment. A timeless work by one of the UKs leading commentators and now with pointers to key developments in penal politics of the last 20 years. This first paperback version contains a wide-ranging analysis of the topic from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, including: the impact on punishments of power struggles, wealth, superstition, class distinctions, populist ideas, the centrality for many years of the death penalty, modern-day ideas of rehabilitation but above all the underlying threads of social control, law and order and political signals about crime. A classic work and a collectors item which looks at the genesis and purposes of punishment. Shows how punishment, power differences, social control and (sometimes suspect) economics and politics have always been intertwined. A must for practitioners and students in this field. This splendid book
reveals in all its starkness the close connexion between the inhumanities of punishment and the political interests of the StateJustice of the Peace. Starts with a delightful description of Anglo-Saxon criminal law and punishment, and travels fast forwards
A colourful entertainmentCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health. Well researched, knowledgeable
a good readLitigation. First class readingPolice Journal. Takes us on a breathless tour dhorizon of the history of judicial punishment, a thousand years in a hundred pages, before slowing down to examine more closely the reforms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesThe Magistrate
- | Author: John Hostettler
- | Publisher: Waterside Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 22, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1909976334
- | ISBN-13: 9781909976337
- Author:
- John Hostettler
- Publisher:
- Waterside Press
- Publication Date:
- Jun 22, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 224 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1909976334
- ISBN-13:
- 9781909976337