This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters
addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their
historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the
modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia
and Greece, not just on material from familiar locations in western
Europe. Ranging from the early modern to the late twentieth
century, the collection has implications for how we understand
punishments imposed by states or the community today.
Shame, blame and culpability is divided into three sections,
with a crucial case study part complementing two theoretical parts
on shame, and on blame and culpability; exploring the continuance
of shaming strategies and examining their interaction with and
challenge to 'modern' state-sponsored blaming mechanisms, including
allocations of culpability. The collection includes chapters on the
deviant body, capital punishment and, of particular interest,
Russian case studies, which demonstrate the extent to which the
Russian, like the Greek, experience need to be seen as part of a
wider European whole when examining ideas and themes.
The volume challenges ideas that shame strategies were largely
eradicated in post-Enlightenment western states and societies;
showing their survival into the twentieth century as a challenge to
state dominance over identification of what constituted 'crime' and
also over punishment practices. Shame, blame and culpability will
be a key text for students and academics in the fields of
criminology and crime, gender or European history.
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