Death Penalty as a Social Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077436 |
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| Authors | Evi Girling (0009-0001-5675-1749, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd005 |
| OpenAlex | W4230155030 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The death penalty (also known as capital punishment) is the sentencing of offenders to death after conviction following due process of law. The practice of the death penalty has undergone two key transformations in modern times. The first one is an unremitting restriction on the kinds of crimes and categories of offender on whom the death penalty could be applied, leading to its eventual abolition in the majority of jurisdictions. The second shift is its transformation from brutal public displays of excess (famously depicted by Foucault in Discipline and Punish , 1977) to private, detached, and medicalized executions where pain and the body is elided, where execution is rendered a non‐event. Within the sociology of punishment these shifts have been mostly explained either by the cultural dynamic of the privatization of disturbing events or by the transformation in technologies of power from punishment as public and violent spectacle inflicting pain on the body to the emergence of disciplinary power and the surveillance of the soul
Capital punishment · Conviction · Criminology · Discipline · Epistemology · Political science · Power (physics · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Soul · Spectacle · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Highly cited | No |
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