Punishment in popular culture / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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NYU Press,
©2015.
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| Series: | Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479878680 1479878685 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |