Discourses on Violence and Punishment: Probing the Extremes

610 Pages·2017·3.369 MB·English

by  Krešimir Petković

Discourses on Violence and Punishment

Discourses on Violence
and Punishment
Probing the Extremes
Krešimir Petković
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Contents
Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction:ProbingtheExtremes 1
1 DeathPenalty:PoliticalTheoryofExtremePunishment 49
2 AHistoryofViolence:ChangingConceptionsof
PunishmentinTimeandSomeAttemptstoExplainThem 111
3 ComparativePoliticsofPunishment:StoriesfromthePenal
Peripheries 169
4 PunishmentandPower:IfPowerPunishes,DoesAbsolute
PowerPunishAbsolutely? 233
5 PunishmentandtheSacred:HowDoGreatReligions
Punish? 299
6 PunishmentandFiction:ImagesofViolenceinLiterature
andFilm 351
7 Criminology:PoliticsintheScienceofCrime 403
8 DismantlingSorrow 455
Bibliography 543
Index 579
AbouttheAuthor 597
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Tables
Table 0.1 Discourses on violence and punishment: Areas of applica-
tionandoverviewofelements
Table1.1Discoursesondeathpenalty:Politics,art,andbiopolitics
Table 2.1 Discourses on historical change in (violence and) punish-
ment
Table3.1Comparativediscoursesonpunishment(andsomeviolence)
Table4.1Discoursesonpunishmentandpower:Foucauldianperspec-
tivedeveloped
Table5.1Elementaryframesforpenalpolicyofthesacredtexts
Table 6.1 Discourses of violence and punishment in fiction: Political
schematizationoffictionalontologiesforpunishment
Table7.1Ontologyandpoliticsofcriminologicaldiscourseswithtwo
meta-frameworksforanalysis
Table8.1Typesofdiscourseexploredinchapterswithexamples
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