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Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice
Engelsk
Bogcover for Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice af , 9780691048451
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9780691048451
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0691048452
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 dec 2001
Størrelse i cm:
23,5 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
9 dec 2001
Paperback 2001
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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 capital punishment indicate that U.S. law is growing more violent at a time when violence is being restrained in other legal systems? How is the violence of law represented in popular culture and does this affect law''s actual legitimacy? Does violence express or distort the essence of law? Does law''s violence serve justice?


In deeply original essays, the authors build on the seminal work of Robert Cover--one of the few legal scholars ever to consider the question of law and violence. In striving to situate his insights within current political, social, economic, and cultural contexts, they contemplate diverse and interrelated subjects surrounding the theme of law and violence. Among these are the purpose of law as punishment, the increasing number of executions in the United States, prison violence, racial disparity in sentencing, and the meaning of torture. The result is a remarkable volume that stimulates us to reconsider connections that we too often leave unexplored. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Marianne Constable, Peter Fitzpatrick, Thomas R. Kearns, Peter Rush, Jonathan Simon, Shaun McVeigh, and Alison Young.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9780691048451
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0691048452
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 dec 2001
Størrelse i cm:
23,5 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
9 dec 2001
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