American Penology: A History of Control (New lines in criminology) - Hardcover

Lucken, Karol; Blomberg, Thomas G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0202306372 ISBN 13: 9780202306377

Verlag: AldineTransaction, 2001

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Book by Lucken Karol Blomberg Thomas G

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-This textbook provides a useful overview of the history of America's constantly shifting responses to crime. Written by and for criminologists, the work eschews the standard encyclopedic approach and is structured chronologically, incorporating the vast array of theoretical literature that has recently dominated scholarly discussions in sociology, history, and penology. The authors are admittedly not slavish to a detailed recording of crime and punishment in US history, and the book -focuses upon selected demographic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual contingencies that are associated with particular historical and contemporary eras to suggest how these contingencies shaped America's punishment ideas and practices-... Recommended for libraries specializing in criminology, this is a suitable text for a range of sociology and criminology college-level courses.- --K. Edgerton, Choice "This textbook provides a useful overview of the history of America's constantly shifting responses to crime. Written by and for criminologists, the work eschews the standard encyclopedic approach and is structured chronologically, incorporating the vast array of theoretical literature that has recently dominated scholarly discussions in sociology, history, and penology. The authors are admittedly not slavish to a detailed recording of crime and punishment in US history, and the book "focuses upon selected demographic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual contingencies that are associated with particular historical and contemporary eras to suggest how these contingencies shaped America's punishment ideas and practices..". Recommended for libraries specializing in criminology, this is a suitable text for a range of sociology and criminology college-level courses." --K. Edgerton, Choice "This textbook provides a useful overview of the history of America's constantly shifting responses to crime. Written by and for criminologists, the work eschews the standard encyclopedic approach and is structured chronologically, incorporating the vast array of theoretical literature that has recently dominated scholarly discussions in sociology, history, and penology. The authors are admittedly not slavish to a detailed recording of crime and punishment in US history, and the book "focuses upon selected demographic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual contingencies that are associated with particular historical and contemporary eras to suggest how these contingencies shaped America's punishment ideas and practices..". Recommended for libraries specializing in criminology, this is a suitable text for a range of sociology and criminology college-level courses." --K. Edgerton, Choice

Reseña del editor:

The significant events in the history of crime and punishment in the US have been recounted before. What this text offers is a unique way of communicating that story, which lends a new understanding to received notions of crime control and illuminates the moments in penal reform. Blomberg and Lucken provide a broad overview of that continuing legacy while examining the historical contexts and associated ideologies that gave rise to specific punishment policies and practices at each juncture. Together, these analyses provide insights into the likely future of penal control and the larger culture of control as we enter the new millennium. That expanding culture of control is the subtext of American Penology. The mechanisms of control have been applied to an ever-increasing proportion of the base population. And the culture of control portrayed in these pages is hardly limited to penal control. It pervades the general culture, and increasingly impacts upon the daily lives of American citizens. Thus the policy context of Blomberg and Lucken's book goes well beyond the ambit of criminology, and touches on the declining levels of democracy, freedom, and privacy within the larger culture they explore.

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• Verlag: AldineTransaction
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0202306372
• ISBN 13: 9780202306377
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400