Title
The Culture of Punishment : Prison, Society, and Spectacle / Michelle Brown.
ISBN
9780814739044
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814739044.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HV8756 .B76 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.3/6
Summary
America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people-or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments.The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet-television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons-demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
Alternative Criminology ; ; 23
Available in Other Form
print 9780814799994
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Notes on Becoming a Penal Spectator
2. Prison Theory: Engaging the Work of Punishment
3. Prison Iconography: Regarding the Pain of Others
4. Prison Tourism: The Cultural Work and Play of Punishment
5. Prison Portents: Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
6. Prison Science: Of Faith and Futility
7. Prison Otherwise: Cultural Meanings beyond Punishment
Notes
References
Index
About the Author