Revisiting the history and philosophy of punishment. "Pattern penitence" : penitential narrative and moral reform discourse in nineteenth-century Britain / Anna Kaladiouk -- "Foremost among the prerogatives of sovereignty" : the power to punish and the death of comity in American criminal law / Karl B. Shoemaker -- Punishment, institutions, and justfications / Leo Zaibert -- Philosophical theories of punishment and the history of prison reform / Christopher Sturr. Penal practices in the modern state. Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship / Keally McBride -- Perhaps all pain is punishment : community corrections and the hyperghetto / William Lyons -- How science matters : discourse on deterrence in a death penalty debate / Theodore Sasson. Representing punishment in literature and popular culture. Executing sentences in Lolita and the law / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- The psychic life of punishment (Kant, Nietzsche, Freud) / Klaus Mladek -- Victim stories : documenting pain, punishment, prison and power / Alexandra Juhasz -- Remote justice : tuning in to small claims, race, and the reinvigoration of civic judgment / Valerie Karno.