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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william wringe”
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  • An Expressive Theory of Punishment

    by William Wringe ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    by Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris ...
    The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review)A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed author Philip Gourevitch presents the story behind a ... Read more

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  • A HANDBOOK ON HANGING

    Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution ...

    by Charles Duff ...
    Charles Duff’s 1928 study of state sanctioned-killing, botched executions and the relative merits and demerits of decapitation. ‘A Handbook on Hanging’ is an anti-capital punishment polemic in the honourably ironic tradition of Jonathan Swift and Stephen Leacock. Duff updated his ‘Handbook’ in 1938, 1948 and in 1961, but this version is the original 1928 edition.Charles Duff (Enniskillen, N.I., ... Read more

    $3.55 CAD

  • Speed Limits

    Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A contemplation on "the durability of our fast-tracked, multitasked modern world . . . a stimulating cautionary report for the digital age."— Kirkus ReviewsWe live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better?Drawing together ... Read more

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  • Prison Round Trip

    by Klaus Viehmann, Bill Dunne ...
    Series series PM Pamphlet
    Bang. The door to your cell is shut. You have survived the arrest, you are mad that you weren’t more careful, you worry that they will get others too, you wonder what will happen to your group and whether a lawyer has been called yet—of course you show none of this. The weapon, the fake papers, your own clothes, all gone. The prison garb and the shoes they’ve thrown at you are too big—maybe ... Read more

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  • Punishment and Shame

    A Philosophical Study

    by Wendy C. Hamblet ...
    Punishment is the imposition, by a legitimate authority, of a painful consequence upon one who has offended the social order by indulging in acts contrary to the social good. Punishment is understood to serve a primary objective in any society: it rehabilitates or reforms (re-forms or shapes anew) the psyches of social offenders to bring them in line with prevailing codes of behavior. Punishment ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court

    An Empirical Approach

    by Lawrence Wrightsman ...
    Series series American Psychology-Law Society Series
    Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments. By carefully analyzing transcripts of all the oral arguments available to the public, Professor Wrightsman provides empirical answers to a number of questions about the operation of oral arguments. This book provides a model for understanding the dynamics of judicial decision ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Humanity without Dignity

    Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights

    by Andrea Sangiovanni ...
    Name any valued human trait—intelligence, wit, charm, grace, strength—and you will find an inexhaustible variety and complexity in its expression among individuals. Yet we insist that such diversity does not provide grounds for differential treatment at the most basic level. Whatever merit, blame, praise, love, or hate we receive as beings with a particular past and a particular constitution, we ... Read more

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  • Addicted to Rehab

    Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration

    by Allison McKim ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Critical Criminology and Social JusticeWinner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and CrimeAfter decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Autarchies

    The Invention of Selfishness

    by David Ashford ...
    The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley.But what do we ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Phenomenology of Sociality

    Discovering the ‘We’

    Edited by Thomas Szanto, Dermot Moran ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Phenomenology
    Phenomenological accounts of sociality in Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Scheler, Schütz, Stein and many others offer powerful lines of arguments to recast current, predominantly analytic, discussions on collective intentionality and social cognition. Against this background, the aim of this volume is to reevaluate, critically and in contemporary terms, the rich phenomenological ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Elasticized Ecclesiology

    The Concept of Community after Ernst Troeltsch

    by Ulrich Schmiedel ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This study confronts the current crisis of churches. In critical and creative conversation with the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923), Ulrich Schmiedel argues that churches need to be “elasticized” in order to engage the “other.” Examining contested concepts of religiosity, community, and identity, Schmiedel explores how the closure of church against the sociological “other” ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD