Papers presented at a conference of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, May 18-20, 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index.
Contents:
Punishments in traditional China : from family, to group, to the state / Brian McKnight -- Punishment, retribution and justice in Islamic theology and jurisprudence / Bernard Weiss -- Juristic theology? : Medieval and Early Modern European perspectives on crime and punishment / Edward Peters -- The death penalty in Old Regime France / Richard Mowery Andrews -- Dickens and the representation of punishment / Steven Marcus -- Dreading and desiring punishment : on morality and mosochism / Robert Alan Glick -- A trial judge's view of moral, constitutional and conventional justifications for punishment / Lois G. Forer -- Getting even : the role of the victim / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- Just deserts or just desertion? : an attack on modern retributivism / Nigel Walker -- Punishment : a communitarian approach / Nicola Lacey.
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