Chapter Six The Promise of Incapacitation

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgment vii
4. Introduction 1
5. From Barbaric to Civilized 11
6. From Civilized to Barbaric 19
7. Rethinking Corporal Punishment 33
8. The Retribution of Mass Incarceration 49
9. The Successful Failure of Deterrence 61
10. The Promise of Incapacitation 67
11. A New Way to Punish 89
12. Punishing without Bias 115
13. Civilizing Barbarism 135
14. The End of Punishment (as We Know It) 167
15. Debating Points 183
16. A Chronology of Civilized Punishments 193
17. Notes 195
18. Works Cited 245
19. Index 267