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

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

By Federica Coppola
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available August 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009255394
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 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,

Table of Contents

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
Epilogue
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