Punishment and Modern Society
A Study in Social Theory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 September 1990
- ISBN 9780198762393
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 237x162x24 mm
- Weight 646 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This work provides the first overview and synthesis of the sociology and history of punishment. It is the first comprehensive account of the forms, functions, and significance of punishment in modern society. It is important firstly for reassessing the work of the leading sociologists, and synthesizing their ideas. Secondly, it develops a completely new, comprehensive, and stimulating theory which will establish it as the pre-eminent work in the sociology of punishement and as a major work of social theory.
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This wide-ranging study provides the first comprehensive account of the forms, functions, and significance of punishment in modern society. Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, the book explores the ways in which penality interacts with a variety of social forces, including strategies of power, socio-economic structures, and cultural sensibilities.
In constructing his multi-dimensional account, the author re-assesses the interpretations of punishment offered by the Durkheimian, Marxist, and Foucauldian traditions, and goes on to add a more explicitly cultural reading of his own, drawing upon recent work in cultural anthropology and the ideas of Weber and Elias. Throughout the study, the insights of social and historical theory are brought to bear upon the details of contemporary penal practice in a way which illustrates both the particularities of punishing and the general character of modern society.
The resulting synthesis is a major achievement which will allow sociologists and historians to gain a better understanding of this complex social institution and will help policy-makers to develop more realistic and appropriate objectives in the field of penal policy.
'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. Its comprehensive coverage makes it a genuine review of the field. Its clarity of style and exposition will make it an ideal undergraduate introduction to the subject. Its scholarship and incisiveness of judgement will make it a constant reference work for the initiated and its concluding theoretical synthesis will make it a challenge and inspiration for those undertaking research and writing on the subject. As a state of the art account it is unlikely to be bettered for many a year. It is hoped that Oxford University Press will not wait long before publishing it as a widely accessible paperback ... It is a notable achivement.'
Rod Morgan, Bristol University, British Journal of Criminology
Table of Contents:
The sociology of punishment and punishment today; Punishment and social solidarity: the work of Emile Durkheim; Punishment and the construction of authority: a reworking of Durkheimian themes; The political economy of punishment: Rusche and Kirchheimer and the Marxist tradition; Punishment as ideology and class control; variations on Marxist themes; Punishment and the technologies of power: the work of Michel Foucault; Beyond the power perspective: a critique of Foucault on punishment; The rationalization of punishment: Weberian themes and modern penality; Punishment and culture: cultural forms and penal practices; Punishment and sensibilities: a genealogy of 'civilised' sanctions; Punishment as a cultural agent: penality's role in the creation of culture; Punishment as a social institution
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