Porous Penality and the Myth of Liberal Punishment: Lessons from South Africa
Drawing on Walter Benjamin, this paper discusses the relationships between law, violence, and punishment. The main argument I make is that state punishment is BOTH a violent and logically contradictory practice and that the state’s legal right to punish often spills over into extralegal penal violen...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-123 |
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