Author
James Samuel Logan
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Paperback / softback
Publisher
Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published
January 2008
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Author
James Samuel Logan
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published
January 2008
£19.76
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Good Punishment?
Today's Price £19.76
More than 2 million persons occupy America's prisons and jails today ? the highest per capita incarceration rate in U.S. history. With just 6 percent of the world's population, the United States now holds 25 percent of its prisoners. At what social cost do we build and fill more prisons?
In Good Punishment? James Samuel Logan critiques the American obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it "retributive degradation" of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines ? social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of religion ? as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large, unprecedented scale.
A distinctive contribution of this book lies in its development of a Christian social ethics of "good punishment" embodied as a politics of "healing memories" and "ontological intimacy." Logan earnestly explores how Christians can best engage with the real-life issues and concerns surrounding the American practice of imprisonment.
Author
James Samuel Logan
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published
January 2008
Weight
364g
Page Count
261
Dimensions
155 x 228 x 18 mm
ISBN
9780802863249
ISBN-10
0802863248
Eden Code
4025900
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Author/Creator: James Samuel Logan
ISBN: 9780802863249
Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
Release Date: January 2008
Weight: 364g
Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 18 mm
Eden Code: 4025900