The dual penal state : the crisis of criminal law in comparative-historical perspective /
"[This book] addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these stat...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018
|
| Edition: | First edition |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Engaging scholarship: criminal law and the legitimation of penal power
- The rhetoric of criminal law : sloganism and other coping mechanisms
- Law and police as modes of governance
- Penal law and penal police in the dual penal state
- America's internal penal exceptionalism
- Thomas Jefferson's Virginia criminal law bill
- The model penal code and the war on crime