Punishment : A Comparative Historical Perspective

Professor of Criminal Justice Terance D Miethe; Hong Lu
Cambridge University Press
 9780521605168
0-521-60516-4

This book identifies and examines the sources of similarities and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment.

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over time and place. The authors survey punishment responses to crime and deviance across different regions of the world and in specific countries like the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia.