Punishment and culture : cultural forms and penal practices -- Punishment and sensibilities : a genealogy of 'civilized' sanctions -- Punishment as a cultural agent : penality's role in the creation of culture -- Punishment as a social institution.
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The sociology of punishment and punishment today -- Punishment and social solidarity : the work of Émile Durkheim -- Punishment and the construction of authority : a reworking of Durkheimian themes -- The political economy of punishment : Rusche and Kirchheimer and the Marxist tradition -- Punishment as ideology and class control : variations on Marxist themes -- Punishment and the technologies of power : the work of Michel Foucault -- Beyond the power perspective : a critique of Foucault on punishment -- The rationalization of punishment : Weberian themes and modern penality.