Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice (eBook)

Austin Sarat (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18754-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is a past President of the Law and Society Association and a recipient of its Harry Kalven Award. He is currently President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities. His recent books include The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture and When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. (Princeton)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern
• Schlagworte: Adjudication • Admonition • After Virtue • Alterity • attempt • Calculation • Capital punishment • Class action • Coercion • Common Law • common purpose • Consideration • Constitutionality • Crime • criminal justice • Criminal Law • Criminology • Critical theory • Criticism • Cruel and unusual punishment • deed • defendant • Determination • Deterrence (legal) • dichotomy • Discipline and Punish • Dwelling • Elaine Scarry • Fatalism • fear of crime • Finality (law) • forensic rhetoric • Ideology • Impediment (canon law) • Imprisonment • injunction • Intention (criminal law) • Jacques Derrida • James Boyd White • Judgment (law) • Judicial Discretion • Judicial Independence • Judicial interpretation • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jurisprudence • Law and Justice • Law enforcement • Legal Doctrine • Legal Formalism • Legal Legitimacy • Legal Pluralism • Legal Positivism • Legal Practice • Literature • McCleskey v. Kemp • meaning-making • Milgram experiment • Mind Control • M'Naghten Rules • Monopoly on Violence • Morality • moral responsibility • narrative • natural justice • Necessity • Nomos (sociology) • Nonviolence • Obedience (human behavior) • obscenity • Operation of law • Oppression • Penology • Philosophy of Law • plea • Positivism • Practice of law • presumption • Prison • Prisoner • Procedural law • Proportionality (law) • Prosecutor • Provocation (legal) • punishment • Question of law • Rendition (law) • rhetoric • Robert Cover • Rule of Law • Social organization • Sources of law • State law (United States) • Substantive Law • Taking Rights Seriously • Thought • Tort • Torture • True Crime • Violent crime
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18754-1 / 0691187541
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18754-9 / 9780691187549