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Law as Punishment /

Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sarat, Austin
Otros Autores: Douglas, Lawrence, Umphrey, Martha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contributors; On the Blurred Boundary between Regulation and Punishment; Regulatory and Legal Aspects of Penality; Rights within the Social Contract: Rousseau on Punishment; Collateral Consequences and the Perils of Categorical Ambiguity; In the Prison of the Mind: Punishment, Social Order, and Self-Regulation; Stop and Frisk: Sex, Torture, Control; Index.