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Punitive States

Punishment and the Economy of Violence

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Published: 13th July 2012
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Are there distinctive postmodern forms of punishment? Is the contemporary 'punitive' turn in the United States a sign of things to come in Europe? Has modern rationality at odds with violence or the means to applying violence systematically? 'Punitive States' links together these key contemporary debates in criminology, penology and social theory and offers an alternative analysis inspired by Georges Bataille and Rene Girard. The book then concludes with three dramatic case studies - 'Punishment and the Economy of Violence: State violence, masculinity and the flight from the feminine', 'A honeymoon in Auschwitz' and 'Monstrous doubles' - that relate the foregoing arguments to contemporary cultural forms and political decisions.

Introduction; Modernity, violence and the civilising process; Modernity reconsidered and condemned; Reclaiming modernity; Rethinking violence in modernity; The case for a postmodern penality; State violence, masculinity and the flight from the feminine; A honeymoon in Auschwitz; Monstrous doubles

ISBN: 9781904385912
ISBN-10: 1904385915
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 200
Published: 13th July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6