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The Practice of Naming and Shaming through the Publicizing of “Culprit” Lists

The Practice of Naming and Shaming through the Publicizing of “Culprit” Lists
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Author(s): Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi (University of Piraeus and Peloponnese, Greece)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 12
Source title: Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch007

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Abstract

A long, seemingly endless list of names of men and women “worthy of shame,” aimed at publicly shaming them, has taken the mass media and public authorities by storm. Such public shaming practices can be traced back to the Byzantine era, when culprits were made to sit backwards on a donkey as a punishment, or the judge placed his hands in cinder and smeared their faces with black film, thus publically pillorying them, based on the conviction that a punishment's most important aspect is social stigma and shame induced by public acts. This chapter examines various examples of “public shaming” lists and the general problematic of non-discrete publicizing of a full list of names.

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