Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
Contents:
A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment -- Punishment and the cycle of violence -- The effects of corporal punishment on children -- Punishments and perils in today's prisons -- Prisons are factories of crime -- The scapegoating of prisoners -- The process of criminalization of prisoners : a relational perspective -- The limitations of prison reform -- Arguments for and against the death penalty -- Is there a moral justification for punishment? -- Does incarceration deter the offender from committing further crimes? -- Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment -- Why incarcerate women? -- Emotional abuse -- Social systems of domination and punishment -- The sociopathology of the prison system -- Crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich--a comparison -- A nonviolent approach to communicating and relating to others -- On the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches in groups -- Restorative justice : a new form of nonpunitive justice social injustice -- Domestic abuse : a comparison between the retributive justice and restorative justice approaches -- Restorative justice and retributive justice : a comparison.
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