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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Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2024, Band: 64, Heft: 1, Seiten: 107-123 |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 violence, perpetrated by a range of actors against the racialized poor. I use the term penal violence to refer to all forms of violence which are aimed at enforcing law or punishing a perceived transgression of law or norms. The paper focuses on the infliction of penal violence in South Africa on/in three different scales and jurisdictions: Makwanyane and violence in prisons; police and prosecutorial violence; and extralegal civilian violence. |
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Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 121-123 |
ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azad017 |