Michelle Brown: The Culture of Punishment. Prison, Society, and Spectacle. (Alternative Criminology Series) New York: New York UP 2009. By Michelle Brown. Verlagsanzeige: “The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain”.
Wesites: OHIO U/Faculty, M. B. personal site
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M. B.: “The Aesthetics of Crime” in Philosophy, Crime and Criminology. Eds. Bruce A. Arrigo and Christopher R. Williams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2006, pp. 223-256 (Google-Preview).
M. B.: “H.H. Holmes, Multiple Murderer” in Famous American Crimes and Trials, Newport, CT: Praeger Publishers 2004, 161-179. (“Part of this [i. e. Holmes's] abscncc in cultural history may simply bc thc sheer complcxity of Holmes’s casc. With over a dozen aliases [...] Holmes’s primary crimes take place against the backdrop of an emergent metropolis, Chicago, and the World’s Fair Columbian Ex- position of 1893. His acts were referred to as “the crime of the Century” and considered millennial in their occurrence on thc eve of the twentieth Century. His pursuit and capture occurred against a backdrop of national and international press coverage. In the United States, his crimes achieved far more press attention than those of his more notorious contemporarv across the Atlantic, Jack the Ripper. But it is the Ripper who would capture the attention of history. Why? Let us first examine the scene of the crime”.)
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