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The Pleasure of Punishment (Hardcover)
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The Pleasure of Punishment (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
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Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this
book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with
pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies,
contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have
generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient
Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist
states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often
judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which
desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book
offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the
pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of
punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise
historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the
carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the
continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this
book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow
desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply
entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire
for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book
will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology,
philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.
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