Nyu press ips jun 2015 (2 Ergebnisse)
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS Jun 2015, 2015
Serie: Buch 5 von 6 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America's distinctiv…e approach to punishment and analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony, but in both 'high' and 'popular' culture iconography, in novels, television, and film. This book brings together distinguished scholars of punishment and experts in media studies in an unusual juxtaposition of disciplines and perspectives. Americans continue to lock up more people for longer periods of time than most other nations, to use the death penalty, and to racialize punishment in remarkable ways. How are these facts of American penal life reflected in the portraits of punishment that Americans regularly encounter on television and in film What are the conventions of genre which help to familiarize those portraits and connect them to broader political and cultural themes Do television and film help to undermine punishment's moral claims And how are developments in the boarder political economy reflected in the ways punishment appears in mass culture Finally, how are images of punishment received by their audiences It is to these questions that Punishment in Popular Culture is addressed.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS Jun 2015, 2015
- Hardcover
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way the legal system approaches and resolves family disputes. Traditionally, family law dispute resolution was based on an 'adversary' system: two parties and their advocates stood before a judge who determined which party was at fau…lt in a divorce and who would be awarded the rights in a custody dispute. Now, many family courts are opting for a 'problem-solving' model in which courts attempt to resolve both legal and non-legal issues. At the same time, American families have changed dramatically. Divorce rates have leveled off and begun to drop, while the number of children born and raised outside of marriage has increased sharply. Fathers are more likely to seek an active role in their children's lives. While this enhanced paternal involvement benefits children, it also increases the likelihood of disputes between parents. As a result, the families who seek legal dispute resolution have become more diverse and their legal situations more complex. In Divorced from Reality, Jane C. Murphy and Jana B. Singer argue that the current 'problem solving' model fails to address the realities of today's families. The authors suggest that while today's dispute resolution regime may represent an improvement over its more adversary predecessor, it is built largely around the model of a divorcing nuclear family with lawyers representing all parties-a model that fits poorly with the realities of today's disputing families. To serve the families it is meant to help, the legal system must adapt and reshape itself.
