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"Wendy C. Hamblet's fine study is timely. She goes against the conservative tendency that, out of fear, reasserts a belief in punishment. By placing punishment and shame in historical and philosophical contexts, she brilliantly demonstrates that our treatment of criminals and the poor reveals more about us than it does about them."Richard Stivers Illinois State UniversityBR>"Hamblet here offers `a genealogy of punishment,' an attempt to understand punishment through its history; this study offers, among other delights, a fundamental critique of Foucault's famous attempt to do the same."Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of TechnologyBR>Punishment is the imposition, by a legitimate authority, of a painful consequence upon one who has offended the social order by indulging in acts contrary to the social good. Punishment is understood to serve a primary objective in any society: It rehabilitates or reforms (re-forms or shapes anew) the psyches of social offenders to bring them in line with prevailing codes of behavior. Punishment is thus a highly conservative force, affirming simultaneously the codes of conduct deemed desirable within that society and the status quo of power relations

Author

Hamblet, Wendy C.

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739149362

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences