Crimes of punishment : America's culture of violence / / Theodore L. Dorpat.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 290 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.