Contents: Brian McKnight: Punishment in Traditional China: From Family, to Group, to the State - Bernard Weiss: Punishment, Retribution and Justice in Islamic Theology and Jurisprudence - Edward Peters: Juristic Theology? Medieval and Early Modern European Perspectives on Crime and Punishment - Richard Mowery Andrews: The Death Penalty in Old Regime France - Steven Marcus: Dickens and the Representation of Punishment - Robert Alan Glick: Dreading and Desiring Punishment: On Morality and Masochism - Lois G. Forer: A Trial Judge's View of Moral, Constitutional and Conventional Justifications for Punishment - Jeffrie G. Murphy: Getting Even: The Role of the Victim - Nigel Walker: Just Deserts or Just Desertion? An Attack on Modern Retributivism - Nicola Lacey: Punishment: A Communitarian Approach.