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Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

By Spencer Schaffner

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About the book

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment. Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect of literacy that helps us to express our thoughts, to foster interpersonal communication, and to archive ideas. However, there is a vast array of evidence that emphasizes the counterbelief that writing has the power to punish, shame, humiliate, control, dehumanize, fetishize, and transform those who are subjected to it. In Writing as Punishment in Schools, Court...Show more

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ISBN

9780817320225

Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

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Hardcover

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