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Punishment and Modern Society: a Study in Social Theory by David Garland is a law available to read on EtoBox.
What is Punishment and Modern Society: a Study in Social Theory about?
Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, this book explores how penality interacts with a variety of social forces including strategies of power, socio-economic structures and cultural sensibilities.
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Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- David Garland
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198762393
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Social Science, Philosophy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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