The Punitive Imagination Law, Justice, and Responsibility.
Title:
The Punitive Imagination Law, Justice, and Responsibility.
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9780817387969
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Publication Information:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (199 pages)
General Note:
ContributorsIndex.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Examining Assumptions: An Introduction to Punishment, Imagination, and Possibility / Austin Sarat; 1. "To See a World in a Grain of Sand": Dignity and Indignity in American Criminal Justice / Carol S. Steiker; 2. Injustice, Authority, and the Criminal Law / Stephen P. Garvey; 3. Imprisonment without Justice / Caleb Smith; 4. Punishment as an Act of the Imagination / Leo Katz; 5. "Which Question? Which Lie?": Reflections on Payne v. Tennessee and the "Quick Glimpse" of Life / Michelle Brown; 6. Afterword: Time, Imagination, and Punishment / Patricia Ewick.
Abstract:
From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes and meanings of punishment in the United States. The Punitive Imagination examines some of the critical assumptions that frame America''s approach to punishment. It explores questions such as:· What is the place of concern for human dignity in our prevailing ideologies of punishment?·
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