The will to punish /

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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Main Author: Fassin, Didier (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York City : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Berkeley Tanner lectures.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780190888619
019088861X
9780190888596
0190888598