Punishment: The American Story
Format
Residential
Location
Amherst, MA
Dates
July 7 - 25, 2025
Length
3 weeks
Type
Professional Development Program
Professional Development Program Type
Professional Development Program Audience
Contact
@email
413-542-2350
This Institute will address three questions about punishment that go to the heart of humanistic inquiry and are perennial sources of lively debate.
1) What is punishment and why do we punish as we do?
2) What can we learn about politics, law, and culture in the United States from an examination of our practices of punishment?
3) What are the limits of punishment?
This is a 3 week, residential program for K-12 educators.
Project Director(s)
Austin Sarat
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Leo Zaibert; Paul H. Robinson; Terry Maroney; David Reed Karp; Ashley T. Rubin; Keramet Ann Reiter; Robert Blecker; Naomi Murakawa; James R. Martel; Lawrence Douglas; Adriaan Lanni; Linda Ross Meyer
Grantee Institution
Amherst College
Funded through the Division of Education Programs