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Flogging others : corporal punishment and cultural identity from antiquity to the present
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ISBN: 9789089647863 9789048525942 9789048525959 9048525942 9089647864 9048525950 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam AUP

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Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did it vanish from penal theory, policy, or practice. Far from displaying a steady decline that accelerated with the Enlightenment, physical punishment was contested throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, its application expanding and contracting under diverse pressures. Moreover, despite the integration of penal incarceration into criminal justice systems since the nineteenth century, modern nation states and colonial regimes increased rather than limited the use of corporal punishment. Flogging Others thus challenges a common understanding of modernization and Western identity and underscores earlier civilizations' nuanced approaches to punishment, deviance, and the human body. Today as in the past, corporal punishment thrives due to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously, either as a measure acting upon a deviant's body or as a practice that epitomizes - in the eyes of external observers - a culture's backwardness.


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The death penalty : abolition in Europe
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ISBN: 9287138745 9789287138743 Year: 1999 Publisher: Strasbourg Council of Europe

The death penalty : a world-wide perspective
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ISBN: 0199251282 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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The death penalty : a world-wide perspective
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ISBN: 0198262817 9780198262817 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The contradictions of American capital punishment
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ISBN: 0195152360 Year: 2003 Volume: *2 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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The penalty of death : the Canadian experiment
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ISBN: 0669014648 9780669014648 Year: 1977 Publisher: Lexington (Mass.) : Lexington books,

The contradictions of American capital punishment.
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ISBN: 0195184866 1280428406 0198034792 1602565430 9780198034797 0195178203 9780195178203 9780195184860 9780195152364 0195152360 9780195166378 019516637X 9781602565432 9781280428401 9786610428403 6610428409 0195152360 0190292377 0197733115 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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In the last 25 years almost every Western country has moved to abolish the death penalty. The United States is the exception. This novel thesis argues that a tradition of popular justice conflicts with the legal tradition of due process.

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