Law as punishment/law as regulation /

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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Other Authors: Sarat, Austin, Douglas, Lawrence, Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, 2011.
Series:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • On the blurred boundaries of punishment and regulation / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Merrill Umphrey
  • Regulatory and legal aspects of penality / Markus D. Dubber
  • Rights within the social contract : Rousseau on punishment / Corey Brettschneider
  • Collateral consequences and the perils of categorical ambiguity / Alec C. Ewald
  • In the prison of the mind : punishment, social order, and self-regulation / Susanna Lee
  • Stop and frisk : sex, torture, control / Paul Butler.