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Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate.



Autorentext

Katja Franko Aas



Zusammenfassung
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 significant book explores a number of recent penal developments, such as risk assessment instruments, sentencing guidelines and computerized sentencing information systems, and argues that they are instruments of justice with so-called Macintosh traits, offering pre-programmed answers and solutions. Franko Aas touches upon issues of decision-making at-a-distance, the exercise of discretion, databases, disembodiment and the changing nature of subjectivity. She explores information technology as a cultural environment with profound implications for the nature of penal knowledge, governance and identity constitution. Sentencing in the Age of Information is essential reading for scholars and students interested in sentencing, penal culture, criminology, sociology of law and media and communication studies.Joint winner of the 2006 Hart/Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize.

Inhalt

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
Titel
Sentencing in the Age of Information
Untertitel
From Faust to Macintosh
Autor
Katja Franko Aas
EAN
9781135309770
ISBN
978-1-135-30977-0
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Herausgeber
Taylor & Francis
Veröffentlichung
25.02.2005
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
5.5 MB
Anzahl Seiten
224
Jahr
2005
Untertitel
Englisch