Crimes of Punishment: America's Culture of Violence

Voorkant
Algora Publishing, 2007 - 290 pagina's
This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination of the author s fifty-year career as a psychoanalyst, forensic psychologist and scholar, this wide-ranging work identifies the origins of violence and investigates the surprising consequences of punishment from a multitude of perspectives. In his treatment of the topic, Dr. Dorpat utilizes scienti.
 

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INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER OVERVIEW
1
A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE EFFECTS OF PUNISHMENT
7
How the Loss of Empathy Contributes to Violence
14
Punishment Is Shaming
20
The Childhood Roots of Paranoid Psychopathology
26
The Intergenerational Transmission of an Attitude of Contempt
33
THE EFFECTS OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON CHILDREN
39
PUNISHMENTS AND PERILS IN TODAYS PRISONS
51
NOTES ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RELIGION NONVIOLENCE
155
WHY INCARCERATE WOMEN?
165
EMOTIONAL ABUSE
175
SOCIAL SYSTEMS OF DOMINATION AND PUNISHMENT
191
THE SOCIOPATHOLOGY OF THE PRISON SYSTEM
197
CRIMES OF THE POOR AND CRIMES OF THE RICH A COMPARISON
203
A NONVIOLENT APPROACH TO COMMUNICATING AND RELATING
215
ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NONVIOLENT APPROACHES IN GROUPS
227

PRISONS ARE FACTORIES OF CRIME
69
THE SCAPEGOATING OF PRISONERS
77
THE PROCESS OF CRIMINALIZATION OF PRISONERS A RELATIONAL
85
THE LIMITATIONS OF PRISON REFORM
97
ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
111
IS THERE A MORALJUSTIFICATION FOR PUNISHMENT?
127
DOES INCARCERATION DETER THE OFFENDER FROM COMMITTING FURTHER
145
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE A NEW FORM OF NONPUNITIVE JUSTICE
233
DOMESTIC ABUSE A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
241
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE A COMPARISON
249
BIBLIOGRAPHY
263
INDEX
277
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