Good Punishment?
| Author | : James Samuel Logan |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2008-01-02 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780802863249 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0802863248 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Download or read book Good Punishment? written by James Samuel Logan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author critiques the American obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it "retributive degradation" of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines - social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of religion - as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large, unprecedented scale. The book develops a Christian social ethics of "good punishment" embodied as a politics of "healing memories" and "ontological intimacy"
