Law, violence, and the possibility of justice /

Law punishes violence, yet law depends on violence. In this book, a group of leading interdisciplinary legal scholars seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. What does it mean to talk about the violence of law? Do high incarceration rates and increased reliance on c...

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Tác giả khác: Sarat, Austin (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2001]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv36zrjq
Mục lục:
  • Ch. One. Situating law between the realities of violence and the claims of justice: an introduction / Austin Sarat
  • Ch. Two Vicissitudes of law's violence / Jonathan Simon
  • Ch. Three. Making peace with violence: Robert Cover on law and legal theory / Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
  • Ch. Four. Silence of the law: justice in Cover's "field of pain and death" / Marianne Constable
  • Ch. Five. Judgment dwelling in law: violence and the relations of legal thought / Shaun McVeigh, Peter Rush, Alison Young
  • Ch. Six. Why the law is also nonviolent / Peter Fitzpatrick.