Punishment and Civilization: Penal Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Society

by John Pratt and John Pratt

A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that ′civilization′ prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that process thereafter. ...He Pratt] has at the very least broadened the boundaries of the debate about the history of imprisonment in new and novel ways that will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761947531
• ISBN13: 9780761947530
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"