Karol Lucken

Rethinking Punishment (eBook, ePUB)

Challenging Conventions in Research and Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is punishment? Why do we punish? How much do we punish? What works in punishment? This book explores some of these questions and more, revealing that some of the answers are interconnected and that conventional wisdom is not always right.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317486978
• Artikelnr.: 47906669

Autorenporträt

Karol M. Lucken is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
1.1 From "Get-Tough" to "Get-Smart"
1.2 Chapter Framework
1.3 A Note on Exclusions and Terminology
2. Justifying Punishment: A Moral and Economic Defense of Policy
2.1 Part I: Classic Philosophies of Punishment
2.2 Part II: Post-Classic Justifications of Punishment
2.3 Summary and Conclusions
3. Defining Punishment: The Essential Attributes of Penal Activity
3.1 What is Punishment? Definitions from the Academic Literature
3.2 What is Punishment? A Legal Framework
3.3 What is Punishment? A Social Control Framework
3.4 What is Punishment? A Power Theory Framework
3.5 Summary and Conclusions
4. Measuring Punishment: The Scope & Severity of Penal Activity
4.1 A Brief History on the Measurement of Punishment
4.2 Part I: The Scope of Penal Activity
4.3 Part II: The Severity of Penal Activity
4.4 Summary and Conclusions
5. Evaluating Punishment: "What Works" and the Pursuit of Effectiveness
5.1 The Expectations and Evaluation of Punishment: An Historical
Perspective
5.2 The New Evidence-Based Culture
5.3 What We Know About "What Works"
5.4 Summary and Conclusions
6. Prescribing Punishment: Alternative Directions in Research & Policy
6.1 Conventions in Prescribing Research & Policy
6.2 Justifying Punishment: Loss Reduction as Penal Policy
6.3 Defining & Measuring Punishment: More Debate, More Data
6.4 Evaluating Punishment: Severity, Community and Insider Knowledge
6.5 Final Thoughts