Austin Sarat

Broschiertes Buch

The Punitive Imagination: Law, Justice, and Responsibility

Beschreibung

From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes and meanings of punishment in the US.

Autor

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, USA and the Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law, USA. He is the author or editor of over ninety books on law and society, including Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture; editor of the journals Law, Culture, and Humanities and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; and edits the Cultural Lives of Law book series.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• First Edition
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780817357993
• ISBN-10: 0817357998
• Artikelnr.: 41376759