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Laboratories of virtue
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ISBN: 0807838276 146960048X 9781469600482 0807822779 9780807822777 0807856312 9780807856314 9798890882349 Year: 1996 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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Qualities of mercy : justice, punishment, and discretion
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ISBN: 0774805846 9780774805841 0774805854 9780774805858 9780774854757 0774854758 1283132036 9781283132039 9786613132031 6613132039 Year: 1996 Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press,

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Qualities of Mercy deals with the history of mercy, the remittance of punishments in the criminal law. The writers probe the discretionary use of power and inquire how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law. Drawing on the history of England, Canada, and Australia in periods when both capital and corporal punishment were still practised, they show that contrary to common assumptions the past was not a time of unmitigated terror and they ask what inspired restraint in punishment. They conclude that the ability to decide who lived and died -- through the exercise or denial of mercy -- reinforced the power structure. The essays are an important contribution to current public policy debates. If today's move towards unyielding and harsher punishment proceeds, including campaigns to reinstate capital punishment, mercy alone will fail to neutralize the inequities of criminal justice. Only profound cultural shifts and transitions of sensibility have the force to stem the tide of unprecedented punitiveness.

Crime history and histories of crime : studies in the historiography of crime and criminal justice in modern history
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ISBN: 0313287228 9780313287220 Year: 1996 Volume: 48 Publisher: Westport, Conn. London Greenwood Press

Punishment : social control and coercion
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ISBN: 0820428035 Year: 1996 Volume: 7 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Lang

Understanding justice : an introduction to ideas, perspectives and controversies in modern penal theory
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ISBN: 0335196845 0335193293 9780335196845 9780335193295 Year: 1996 Publisher: Buckingham Open university press


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Impunity: an ethical perspective : six case studies from Latin America.
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ISBN: 2825412031 9782825412039 Year: 1996 Publisher: Geneva WCC Publications

God's just vengeance : crime, violence, and the rhetoric of salvation
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ISBN: 0521553016 0521557623 0511627939 051182114X Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This 1996 book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called 'satisfaction theory' of atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Drawing on the work of Norbert Elias and David Garland, the author argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect which favoured retributive policies. He ranges freely between Old Testament texts, St Anselm, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history, to show the integral connection between sin and crime, the legal and the moral. The question arises if the preaching of the cross not only desensitised us to judicial violence but even lent it sanction. The last two chapters review theory and practice in the twentieth century, and Timothy Gorringe makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence.

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