Book Info
Just and Painful: A Case for Corporal Punishment of Criminals (2nd edition)
Graeme Newman, ed.
(Paperback)
1995, 184 pages
ISBN: 0-911577-33-5
$25.00
ubstantially revised and extended, Newman takes his argument one further logical step -- and treads where no other criminologist has dared to go. Contents: Prologue to Second Edition. 1. Pain: The Forgotten Punishment. 2. Pain and Punishment. 3. On Crimes and Their Punishments: The Psychology of Retribution. 4. The Limits of Pain: Barbaric and Civilzed Punishments. 5. Electric Shock: The Fairest Punishment of All. 6. Splitting Crimes from Criminals. 7. Prisons as Purgatory. 8. Comparing Punishments. 9. Choosing the Punishment. 10. Cruel and Unusual? 11. The Moral Superiority of Retribution. 12. Pain is Not Evil. 13. Pain is Not (Necessarily) Torture. 14. Will Corporal Punishment Deter? 15. Turning Bad into Good. 16. A Punishment Manifesto.
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