“darker than any prison, hotter than any human flame”: Punishment, choice, and culpability in a clockwork orange

Illya Lichtenberg, Howard Lune, Patrick McManimon

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Abstract

Contemporary textbooks in criminal justice use A Clockwork Orange to illustrate issues of correctional and sentencing practices. This article challenges criminal justice faculty and students to use the film to explore the political and social realities of punishment, in particular the examination of the moral question of “voluntariness” and the implications for “treatment” as a mechanism of social control. This paper explores the moral questions of state sponsored social control and using the film satire invites the student to examine their beliefs about the political and social realities of punishment and rehabilitation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)429-449
Number of pages21
JournalInternational Journal of Phytoremediation
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

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