Part 1 Revisiting the history and philosophy of punishment: pattern penitence: penitential narrative and moral reform discourse in 19th-century England, A. Kaladiouk; foremost among the prerogatives of sovereignty - the power to punish and the death of comity in American criminal law, K. Shoemaker; punishment, institutions, justifications, L. Zaibert; philosophical theories of punishment and the history of prison reform, C. Sturr. Part 2 Penal practices in the modern state - hitched to the post: prison labor, choice, and citizenship, K. McBride; perhaps all pain is punishment: community corrections and the hyperghetto, W. Lyons; how science matters - discourse on deterrence in a death penalty debate, T. Sasson. Part 3 Representing punishment: executing sentences in Lolita and the law, S. Sweeney; the psychic life of punishment (Kant, Nietzsche, Freud), K. Mladek; victim stories - documenting pain, punishment, person and power, A. Juhasz; remote justice - tuning into small claims, race, and the reinvigoration of civic judgment, V. Karno.
