Punishment: Rhetoric, Rule, and Practice

by Richard W. Ireland and Christopher Harding

First published in 1989, Punishment examines the practice of punishment, not simply as a typical sanction employed by the state but as a pervasive feature of social organisation in both past and contemporary societies. With depth and rigour, they consider penal practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts, such as the family, kinship and tribal groupings, small communities, educational institutions, the workplace and the commercial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103234525X
• ISBN13: 9781032345253
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages