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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 January 2010
      14 March 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511627934
      9780521553018
      9780521557627
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627934
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.453kg, 296 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.371kg, 296 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Politics: General Interest, Law, Religion, Theology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion (9)
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    Subjects:
    Law: General Interest, Politics: General Interest, Law, Religion, Theology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion (9)
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    This 1996 book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called 'satisfaction theory' of atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Drawing on the work of Norbert Elias and David Garland, the author argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect which favoured retributive policies. He ranges freely between Old Testament texts, St Anselm, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history, to show the integral connection between sin and crime, the legal and the moral. The question arises if the preaching of the cross not only desensitised us to judicial violence but even lent it sanction. The last two chapters review theory and practice in the twentieth century, and Timothy Gorringe makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence.

    Reviews

    "...[an] extraordinarily learned volume....unusually perceptive and even profound. It should be read and studied carefully by everyone involved in the administration of criminal justice." Law Books In Review

    "...the author convincingly demonstrates how an atonement model invariably leads to a retributivist strategy based on punishing offenders." The Canadian Catholic Review

    "...a fine piece of detective work." Theological Studies

    "...this is an ambitious and thought-provoking book." Rachel Fulton, Law and History Review

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