Punishment and Social Structure

Why are certain methods of punishment adopted or rejected in a given social situation? To what extent is the development of penal methods determined by basic social relations? The answers to these questions are complex, and go well beyond the thesis that institutionalized punishment is simply for the protection of society

Author: Otto Kirchheimer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/30/2003
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.86w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780765809216

About the Author
Melossi, Dario: -

Dario Melossi is professor of criminology at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the co-author (with Massimo Pavarini) of The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System, author of The State of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social Control in the Making of Democracy, and editor of The Sociology of Punishment.