Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

About the publication The prohibition against corporal punishment is an integral part of the broader transformation of South African education. The prohibition seeks to replace South Africa’s violent and authoritarian past with an ethos respectful of human dignity and bodily integrity. About the editors: Faranaaz Veriava has a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and a LLM in human rights and constitutional practice from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Table of Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS Introduction 1.1 The purpose of the report 1.2 Methodology 1.3 The structure of the report Corporal punishment in context 2.1 A historical overview of corporal punishment in South Africa 2.2 Debates on corporal punishment 2.3 An ‘official ambivalence’ to the prohibition The incidence of corporal punishment 3.1 An overview of statistical data 3.2 A sample study of corporal punishment complaints 3.3 Observations from the corporal punishment cases The legal and policy framework governing the prohibition against corporal punishment in South Africa 4.1 The protection of learners from corporal punishment 4.2 The sanction of educators administering corporal punishment 4.3 Best practice case studies: Western Cape and Gauteng Corporal punishment at independent schools 5.1 An overview of independent schools in South Africa 5.2 The legal framework governing independent schools 5.3 Improving mechanisms of enforcement at independent schools Developing effective ‘legal and educational’ programmes in enforcing the ban against corporal punishment 6.1 Shifting attitudes and implementing alternatives to corporal punishment 6.2 Improved mechanisms for the enforcement of the corporal punishment ban 6.3 Proposed interventions Conclusion LIST OF REFERENCES

Human dignity South Africa Corporal punishment

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.

Punishment - Moral and ethical aspects --- Social justice --- Social control --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social Justice. --- Social control. --- Social conflict --- Sociology --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- Equality --- Justice --- Foucault --- Penal Desire --- Penal pleasure --- Penology --- Pleasure of punishment --- Power --- Punishment and Modern Society --- Sociology of Punishment --- The Culture of Punishment --- Punishment --- Moral and ethical aspects.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on safeguarding the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing offenders. Taking an in-depth look at seven different Western countries, each chapter provides an overview of the role of assessment in sentencing offenders, as well as a focus on formal ways in which the respective country's legal system and disciplinary associations protect the quality of forensic assessment. Each chapter explores how to assure better decision making in individual cases based on assessments of psycholegal concepts such as mental disorder/insanity, criminal responsibility and dangerousness. Combining the perspectives of lawyers, legal scholars, and clinicians working in the field, this book is essential for those working in and with forensic assessment.

Sentences (Criminal procedure) --- Sentencing --- Correctional law --- Criminal procedure --- Judgments, Criminal --- Punishment

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Il n’est point de liberté dès lors que les lois permettent que dans certaines occasions l’homme cesse d’être une personne et devienne une chose : vous verrez alors l’industrie du puissant tout employée à faire sortir de la foule des combinaisons civiles celles que la loi tourne en sa faveur. Cesare Beccaria, Des délits et des peines, 1764-1766 Qu’est-ce qu’une peine juste, qui a le droit de punir et comment punir avec justice ? Beccaria répond que les principes et les lois du droit pénal doivent pouvoir se déduire d’un contrat social lui-même fondé sur le plus grand bonheur du plus grand nombre. Cette réponse le conduit au cœur des dilemmes de la modernité juridique : droit naturel ou utilitarisme, principes de justice ou calcul des conséquences. Le présent volume se compose de trois ensembles : une introduction retrace d’abord la genèse et le destin d’un livre resté célèbre pour avoir, le tout premier dans l’histoire, combattu la peine de mort ; une nouvelle traduction française, accompagnée d’un texte original lui-même nouvellement établi par Gianni Francioni, invite à le lire ou le relire au plus près de sa forme d’origine ; un appareil de notes, enfin, propose des instruments pour interpréter le texte et s’aventurer dans les sentiers qui bifurquent de ses significations.

Punishment --- Peines --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Lawyers --- Punishment. --- Early works to 1800. --- Biography. --- Beccaria, Cesare, --- Biography --- Procédure pénale --- Droit pénal --- Aspect moral --- Philosophie --- procédure pénale --- peine --- aspect moral --- droit pénal

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies builds on specific regional archives and literatures to write the first global history of penal transportation. The essays explore the idea of penal transportation as an engine of global change, in which political repression and forced labour combined to produce long-term impacts on economy, society and identity. They investigate the varied and interconnected routes convicts took to penal sites across the world, and the relationship of these convict flows to other forms of punishment, unfree labour, military service and indigenous incarceration. They also explore the lived worlds of convicts, including work, culture, religion and intimacy, and convict experience and agency."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Penal colonies --- Penal transportation --- Prisoners --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Prisoners, Transportation of --- Transportation, Penal --- Transportation of prisoners (Punishment) --- Punishment --- Expulsion --- Colonies --- Inmates --- Transportation to penal colonies