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Sentencing in the Age of Information: From Faust to Macintosh book cover

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Sentencing in the Age of Information From Faust to Macintosh

By Katja Franko Aas Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

218 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

224 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish
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How does the fact that we live in information societies reflect on the nature of penal discourse and practice? Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Kate Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate marked by growing demands for information processing, transparency and accountability. This... Read more

Introduction.  'Sentencing-at-a-Distance'.  How Information Lost its Body.  Computerized Justice as a Trend.  The End of 'Delinquent With a Soul'.  Data-Vidual.  From Faust to Macintosh

Biography

Katja Franko Aas

"This volume is a welcome addition to the sparse literature dealing with sentencing from sociological perspective." - CCJ Volume 6, Issue 2

"'One of the main strengths of the book is the way in which Aas draws on the work of a range of theorists including Foucault, Garland and Feeley and Simon who have developed this approach in the field of criminal justice." - Neil Hutton, University of Strathclyde, UK

"It is no easy task to do justice to the many virtues of this book in the space of a review… [Aas’] book’s wide-ranging exploration into the practices of penological knowing and deciding will be an example and a point of departure for subsequent researchers in the field.
This book would be an excellent choice for any advanced course in penal theory." – Punishment & Society, vol 9 issue 4, October 2007

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