The will to punish / Didier Fassin ; with commentary by Bruce Western, Rebecca M. Mclennan, David W. Garland ; edited and introduced by Christopher Kutz.
In The Will to Punish, Didier Fassin interrogates the philosophical presuppositions of modern punishment. Through his own fieldwork, history and anthropology, Fassin breaks the conceptual links between crime and punishment, showing that states punish without crime, and that the extent of punishment&...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York City :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Berkeley Tanner lectures.
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| Online Access: | Click here to access this resource online |
| Summary: | In The Will to Punish, Didier Fassin interrogates the philosophical presuppositions of modern punishment. Through his own fieldwork, history and anthropology, Fassin breaks the conceptual links between crime and punishment, showing that states punish without crime, and that the extent of punishment's focus on marginalized communities means that it lies beyond any rational justification. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780190888619 019088861X 9780190888596 0190888598 |