Tag: Punishment

April 25, 2024

Corporal Punishment in the Bible A Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic for Troubling Texts

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Free Download William J. Webb, "Corporal Punishment in the Bible: A Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic for Troubling Texts"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0830827617 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.6 mb
William Webb confronts those often avoided biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves and wrongdoers. How should we understand and apply them today? Are we obligated to replicate those injunctions today? Or does the proper interpretation of them point in a different direction? Webb notes that most of the Christian church is at best inconsistent in its application of these texts. But is there a legitimate basis for these lapses? Building on the findings of his previous work, Slaves, Women and Homosexuals, Webb argues that the proper interpretation and application of these texts requires ascertaining their meaning within the ancient cultural/historical context. In recognizing the sweep of God’s redemptive purposes already evident in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New, we remain truly biblical.

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January 10, 2024

Pain Hustlers Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell

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Free Download Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell by Evan Hughes
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 0525566325 | 288 pages | PDF | 3.06 Mb
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers-until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. * THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS

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January 5, 2024

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment

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Free Download Farah Focquaert, "The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment "
English | ISBN: 1138580627 | 2020 | 428 pages | EPUB | 1133 KB
Philosophers, legal scholars, criminologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked important questions about punishment: What is its purpose? What theories help us better understand its nature? Is punishment just? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the relationships between punishment and our biology, psychology, and social environment? How is punishment understood and administered differently in different societies?

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January 5, 2024

Gender and punishment in Ireland Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64

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Free Download Lynsey Black, "Gender and punishment in Ireland: Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64"
English | ISBN: 1526145286 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women’s lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government documents, press reporting, the remnants of public opinion and the voices of the women themselves, the book contributes to the burgeoning literature on gender and punishment and women who kill. Engaging with concepts such as ‘double deviance’, chivalry, paternalism and ‘coercive confinement’, the work explores the penal landscape for offending women in postcolonial Ireland, examining in particular the role of the Catholic Church in responses to female deviance. The book is an extensive interdisciplinary treatment of women who kill in Ireland and will be useful to scholars of gender, criminology and history.

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