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Happiness is the Wrong MetricBack to the Pillory?

Happiness is the Wrong Metric: Back to the Pillory? [When one motions to deploy shaming as punishment, a seconder is often hard to find. Yet, this chapter argues, shame is a deeply democratic and communitarian form of social control, as punishment is administered in accordance with the values of the community of which the offender is a member. Far from colonial floggings and witch hunts, modern forms of shaming, like a thief who must confess his crime in the local newspaper, can be a humane and effective form of deterrence. The chapter explores the history of shaming as judicial punishment, the forms it takes, and the conditions under which it is best practiced, and considers how shame can reintegrate offenders into modern communities, rather than ostracize them. The chapter points to the current state of criminal justice, where prisons turn criminals into hardened outsiders likely to reoffend, and asks the reader to consider how returning to the pillory, so to speak, could be a progressive alternative to the status quo.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. This book is an open access publication.
ISBN
978-3-319-69622-5
Pages
173 –180
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-69623-2_10
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[When one motions to deploy shaming as punishment, a seconder is often hard to find. Yet, this chapter argues, shame is a deeply democratic and communitarian form of social control, as punishment is administered in accordance with the values of the community of which the offender is a member. Far from colonial floggings and witch hunts, modern forms of shaming, like a thief who must confess his crime in the local newspaper, can be a humane and effective form of deterrence. The chapter explores the history of shaming as judicial punishment, the forms it takes, and the conditions under which it is best practiced, and considers how shame can reintegrate offenders into modern communities, rather than ostracize them. The chapter points to the current state of criminal justice, where prisons turn criminals into hardened outsiders likely to reoffend, and asks the reader to consider how returning to the pillory, so to speak, could be a progressive alternative to the status quo.]

Published: Jan 9, 2018

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