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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sarat, Austin
Other Authors: Douglas, Lawrence, Umphrey, Martha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.