The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice

Name: The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009255394
Price: 1324.05 HKD
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Author: Federica Coppola
ISBN: 9781009255394

By Federica Coppola

Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available July 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781009255394
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Real Pain of Punishment explores the true pains of incarceration using insights from empirical sciences and people with lived prison experiences. The book highlights the concept of 'belonging' as an unprecedented lens for critically interrogating the legitimacy of incarceration across penal theory, sentencing practice, and human rights frameworks. The chapters chart pathways for bridging the gap between the normative idea of punishment and the stark realities of prison life. The final chapter, written with scholars currently and formerly incarcerated in a New York State facility, reflects on how embracing belonging within penal approaches can inform responses to harm grounded in humanization, proximity,

Foreword by Adam Kolber

1. Penal pain

2. The specter of prison pain

3. Prison pains exposed

4. Prison, social pain, and the need to belong

5. From liberty to belonging

6. (E)Limi(na)ting pain, embracing belonging – what would justice look like?

with Michael Shane Hale, Salahuddin Tayden Townsley, Raymond A. Wallace, Jr., Paul Cortez and Mujahideen Muhammad

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