Name: The Politics of Punishment Revised reprint
Brand: Waterside Press
SKU: 9781909976337
Price: 299.25 HKD
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Author: John Hostettler
ISBN: 9781909976337

The Politics of Punishment Revised reprint

By John Hostettler

Waterside Press June 2016

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781909976337
Publisher: Waterside Press
Publication: June 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This re-issue with a new Preface of a classic work by John Hostettler looks at the political and other social dynamics behind law, order and punishment. A timeless work by one of the UK’s leading commentators and now with pointers to key developments in penal politics of the last 20 years.

This first paperback version contains a wide-ranging analysis of the topic from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, including: the impact on punishments of power struggles, wealth, superstition, class distinctions, populist ideas, the centrality for many years of the death penalty, modern-day ideas of rehabilitation but above all the underlying threads of social control, law and order and political signals about crime.