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\"Informed by current scholarship, yet tailored to the needs of undergraduate students, this textbook presents a broad perspective on one of the most fundamental social practices. Punishment is the common response to crime and deviance in all societies. However, its particular form and purpose are also linked to specific structural features of these societies in a particular time and place. Through a comparative historical analysis, the authors identify and examine the sources of similarity and difference in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and nonlethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place.\"--Jacket This 2005 book is designed to identify and examine the sources of similarity and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place.Punishment in different forms is examined, including corporal and economic punishment. Punishment is the universal response to crime and deviance in all societies.

Author

TERANCE D.MIETHE HONG LU, Miethe, Terance D., Lu, Hong, Terence D. Miethe, Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe, Hong Lu

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511813801

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science