Arasse, D. (1989) The guillotine and the terror. London: Allen Lane.
2.
Bakhtin, M. (1981) The dialogic imagination: Four essays. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
3.
Barthes, R. (1957) Mythologies. Paris: Editions du Sueil.
4.
Bender, J. (1987) Imagining the penitentiary: Fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth century England. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
5.
Bentham, J. (1843) The works of Jeremy Bentham. Ed. John Bowring.Edinburgh: William Tait.
6.
Crawley, E.M. (2004) `Emotion and performance: Prison officers and the presentation of self in prisons', Punishment & Society6(4): 411-27.
7.
Douglas, M. (1966) Purity and danger. London: Routledge, Kegan Paul.
8.
Downes, D. (1988) Contrasts in tolerance: Post-war penal policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9.
Duncan, M.G. (1996) Romantic outlaws, beloved prisons: The unconscious meanings of crime and punishment. New York: NYU Press.
10.
Durkheim, E. (1968) The elementary forms of the religious life. London: George Allen & Unwin (original French edn, 1915).
11.
Feeley, M. and J. Simon (1992) `The New Penology', Criminology30(4): 449-74.
12.
Garland, D. (1990) Punishment and modern society: A study in social theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13.
Garland, D. (1991) `Punishment and culture: The symbolic dimensions of criminal justice', in A. Sarat and S. Silbey (eds) Studies in law, politics and society, vol. 11, pp. 191-224. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
14.
Garland, D. (2002) `The cultural uses of capital punishment', Punishment & Society4(4): 459-88.
Garland, David (2006) `Concepts of culture in the sociology of punishment' , Theoretical Criminology10(4): 419-47.
17.
Gatrell, V.A.C. (1994) The hanging tree: Executions and the English people 1770-1868. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
18.
Geertz, C. (1973) The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books.
19.
Gerould, D. (1992) Guillotine: Its legend and lore. New York: Blast Books.
20.
Halttunen, K. (1998) Murder most foul: The killer and the American gothic imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
21.
Kennedy, J. (2000) `Monstrous offenders and the search for solidarity through punishment', Hastings Law Review51(5): 829-908.
22.
Laqueur, T. (1989) `Crowds, carnival and the State in English executions, 1604-1868', in A.L. Beier, David Cannadine and James Rosenheim (eds) The first modern society: Essays in honor of Lawrence Stone, pp. 305-56. New York: Cambridge University Press.
23.
Liu, A. (1989) `The power of formalism: The new historicism', in ELH56(4): 721-71.
24.
McGowen, R. (1987) `The body and punishment in the eighteenth century' , Journal of Modern History59(4): 651-79.
25.
Madow, M. (1995) `Forbidden spectacle: Executions, the public and the press in nineteenth century New York', Buffalo Law Review43: 461-562.
26.
Masur, L. (1989) Rites of execution: Capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865. New York : Oxford University Press.
27.
Melossi, D. (2001) `The cultural embeddedness of social control: Reflections on the comparison of Italian and North-American cultures concerning punishment' , Theoretical Criminology5(4): 403-24.
28.
Miller, W.I. (2000) `Clint Eastwood and equity: The virtues of revenge' , in A. Sarat and T. Kearns (eds) Law in the domains of culture , pp. 161-202. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
29.
Sarat, A. (2001) When the State kills. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
30.
Sarat, A. and C. Boulanger (eds) (2005) The cultural lives of capital punishment. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
31.
Savelsberg, J.J. (2004) `Religion, historical contingencies, and cultures of punishment: The German case and beyond', Law and Social Inquiry, 29(2): 373-401.
32.
Savelsberg, J.J. and R.D. King (2005) `Institutionalizing collective memories of hate: Law and law enforcement in Germany and the United States', American Journal of Sociology111(2): 579-616.
33.
Semple, J. (1993) Bentham's prison: A study of the panopticon penitentiary . Oxford: Clarendon Press.
34.
Simon, J. (2001) `Fear and loathing in late modernity: Reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States', Punishment & Society3(1): 21-33.
35.
Simon, J. and M. Feeley (2003) `The forms and limits of the New Penology', in T. Blomberg and S. Cohen (eds) Punishment and social control, 2nd edn, pp. 75-117. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
36.
Smith, M., R. Sparks and E. Girling (2000) `Educating sensibilities: The image of "the lesson" in children's talk about punishment', Punishment & Society2(4): 395-415.
37.
Smith, P. (2003) `Narrating the guillotine: Punishment technology as myth and symbol', Theory, Culture and Society20(5): 27-51.
38.
Smith, P. (2005) Why war? The cultural logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
39.
Spierenburg, P. (1984) The spectacle of suffering: Executions and the evolution of repression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40.
Tonry, M. (2001) `Unthought thoughts: The influence of changing sensibilities on penal practice', Punishment & Society3(1): 167-81.
41.
Vaughan, B. (2000) `The civilizing process and the Janus-face of modern punishment', Theoretical Criminology4(1): 71-91.
42.
Vaughan, B. (2002) `Cultured punishments: The promise of grid-group theory', Theoretical Criminology6(4): 411-31.
43.
Western, B. (2007) Punishment and inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage.
44.
Whitman, J.Q. (2003) Harsh justice: Criminal punishment and the widening divide between America and Europe. New York: Oxford University Press.
45.
Wiener, M.J. (1990) Reconstructing the criminal: Culture, law and policy in England, 1890-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.