Civilization and Barbarism: Punishing Criminals in the Twenty-First Century
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction A Humane Solution to a Barbaric Situation -- Three Justifications -- Two Ways to Punish -- The Moral Problem of Punishment -- Overview of the Book -- Chapter One From Barbaric to Civilized: The Replacement of Corporal Punishment with Prison -- A Short History of Civilized Punishment -- Chapter Two From Civilized to Barbaric: Prison, the Civilized Punishment, Violates both Body and Mind -- The Body of Mutilation -- Excess -- Violence -- Punishment Must Be Done (aka the Rule of Law) -- Civilizing Punishment by Hiding It -- Chapter Three Rethinking Corporal Punishment: Corporal Punishment Is Not Torture, nor Is It Barbaric -- What Corporal Punishment Is and Is Not -- Corporal Punishment Is Not, in Itself, Torture -- Torture and Confession -- Time as Torture -- Excess and Torture -- Understanding the Pain of Punishment -- Varieties of Pain -- Chronic and Acute Punishments -- Is Pain Evil? -- Chapter Four The Retribution of Mass Incarceration: How the Ideology of Retribution Caused a Committee to Fuel Mass Incarceration -- Sentencing Chaos -- Retribution by Committee -- Reflecting the Crime in the Punishment -- Chapter Five The Successful Failure of Deterrence: How the Fake Science of Deterrence Justified Mass Incarceration -- Does Corporal Punishment Deter? -- Corporal Punishment in Criminal Justice -- Conclusions: From Corporal Punishment to Mass Incarceration -- Chapter Six The Promise of Incapacitation: Redemption and Control of the Body in an Open Society -- Incapacitation without Walls -- Types of Incapacitation -- The Ultimate Solution: Dependent Incapacitation -- A Cautionary Note -- Redemptive Incapacitation -- Chapter Seven A New Way to Punish: Moderate Corporal Punishment Is the Least Imperfect of All Criminal Punishments -- Comparing and Choosing Punishments -- A New Way to Punish.