Screen LibraryGood punishment?：Christian moral practice and U.S. imprisonment
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William B. Eerdmans Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Grand Rapids, Mich. |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 261 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780802863249 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0802863248 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D971 |
| CLC: | D971.267 |
| Call Number: | D971.267/L831 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: The problem of imprisonment in the United States -- Re/producing criminality and the prison-industrial complex -- The collateral social consequences of large-scale imprisonment -- Prisons and social alienation -- Mining Stanley Hauerwas : foundations for a Christian social ethics of good punishment -- Good punishment : the possibility of a politics of healing memories in the public square -- Good punishment : toward a politics of ontological intimacy. |