Punishment is the imposition, by a legitimate authority, of a painful consequence upon one who has offended the social order by indulging in acts contrary to the social good. Punishment is understood to serve a primary objective in any society: it rehabilitates or reforms (re-forms or shapes anew) the psyches of social offenders to bring them in line with prevailing codes of behavior. Punishment thus is a highly conservative force, affirming simultaneously the codes of conduct deemed desirable within the society and the ...
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Punishment is the imposition, by a legitimate authority, of a painful consequence upon one who has offended the social order by indulging in acts contrary to the social good. Punishment is understood to serve a primary objective in any society: it rehabilitates or reforms (re-forms or shapes anew) the psyches of social offenders to bring them in line with prevailing codes of behavior. Punishment thus is a highly conservative force, affirming simultaneously the codes of conduct deemed desirable within the society and the status quo of power relations that hold sway in the society. Punishment is a form of social teaching. One of the favorite forms of didactic pain to which legitimate authorities turn, in teaching conformity to social regulations, is the psychological pain of shame. Shame is a special favorite in the penology of societies of the Western world, whose governing logic is already grounded in the shame-based religions of Judaism and Christianity. Parents, school teachers, religious leaders, and state authorities readily employ shame as an effective method for teaching social lessons. Shame is a powerful force that reaches deep into the psyche of the offender and gnaws away at her sense of self-worth and identity, with longstanding and devastating existential effects. Shame has profound and enduring effects, because it has the capacity to transform an empirical fact (of having done something unacceptable) into an ontological reality (of being unacceptable as a human being). Shame dehumanizes. Shame is a powerfully effective tool for altering behavior, but because shame dehumanizes, it often fails to have the effect that the punisher is seeking to bring about. Shame sickens souls, rather than cures them. It sickens them to such a degree that shame more often acts as a promoter of criminality than as a teacher of the social good.
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Very good. Ex-library. 202 p. Audience: Professional and scholarly. LCCN 2010039526 Type of material Book Personal name Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949-Main title Punishment and shame: a philosophical study / Wendy C. Hamblet. Published/Created Lanham: Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2011] Description 202 pages; 23 cm ISBN 9780739149362 (hardbound) 0739149369 (hardbound) 9780739149379 (paperback) 0739149377 (paperback) LC classification HV8693. H36 2011 Contents Introduction--Justice and the cosmic order in Greek mythology--Justice and punishment in Greek tragedy--Honor and shame in the heroic worldview--Justice and punishment in classical Athens--From avenging to healing--Shame as witness to education--Plato's revolutionary penology--The science of penal measure--A Christian penology--From karitas to penal spectacle--The business of punishment--Modernity's shameful penology--Shame, social injustice, and the poor's right to crime--Afterword. LC Subjects Punishment--Philosophy. Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects. Shame--Philosophy. Other Subjects Strafe. Philosophie. Scham. Ethik. Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index. Dewey class no. 303.3/6 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn667213030 Content type text Media type unmediated Carrier type volume
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