Good punishment? : Christian moral practice and U.S. imprisonment / James Samuel Logan.
Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2008. Description: x, 261 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780802863249 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0802863248 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Imprisonment -- United States | Prisons -- United States | Punishment -- United States | Punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Christian ethicsDDC classification: 261.8/336 LOC classification: HV 9471 | .L64 2008
Contents:
Introduction: The problem of imprisonment in the United States -- Re/producing criminality and the prison-industrial complex -- The collateral social consequences of large-scale imprisonment -- Prisons and social alienation -- Mining Stanley Hauerwas : foundations for a Christian social ethics of good punishment -- Good punishment : the possibility of a politics of healing memories in the public square -- Good punishment : toward a politics of ontological intimacy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The problem of imprisonment in the United States -- Re/producing criminality and the prison-industrial complex -- The collateral social consequences of large-scale imprisonment -- Prisons and social alienation -- Mining Stanley Hauerwas : foundations for a Christian social ethics of good punishment -- Good punishment : the possibility of a politics of healing memories in the public square -- Good punishment : toward a politics of ontological intimacy.