{"product_id":"questioning-punishment-hardback","title":"Questioning Punishment - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book questions punishment as concept, social phenomenon and contemporary practice. It unpacks punishment’s nature and the assumptions that underpin it, examines its targets, objectives and implications, locates punishment and punitivity within their social contexts, and aims to unsettle the idea that there is something common-sensical, necessary and unavoidable about punitive justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuestioning Punishment \u003c\/i\u003edevelops its argument through an innovative structure organised around five central questions: \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhat \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003epunishment is; \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ewho \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003epunishment’s targets and subjects are; \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003epunishment is perpetuated and experienced; \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003ewhere\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epunishment unfolds and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e we punish. It ends by considering the implications of this enquiry to understandings of punishment and broader pursuits of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is essential reading for all those engaged with the sociology of punishment and prisons, criminal justice and theoretical criminology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45601205584110,"sku":"9780367469245","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/questioning-punishment-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}