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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457545203321

Titolo

Law as punishment/law as regulation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Law Books, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-8211-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

DouglasLawrence

UmphreyMartha Merrill

Disciplina

345/.077

Soggetti

Punishment

Criminal law - Philosophy

Punishment - United States

Criminal law - United States - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On the blurred boundaries of punishment and regulation / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Regulatory and legal aspects of penality / Markus D. Dubber -- Rights within the social contract : Rousseau on punishment / Corey Brettschneider -- Collateral consequences and the perils of categorical ambiguity / Alec C. Ewald -- In the prison of the mind : punishment, social order, and self-regulation / Susanna Lee -- Stop and frisk : sex, torture, control / Paul Butler.

Sommario/riassunto

Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no one doubts their power and consequence. This crucial new book considers the problem of law's physical control of persons and the ways in which this control illuminates competing visions of the law: as both a tool of regulation and an instrument of coercion or punishment. It examines various instances of punishment



and regulation to illustrate points of overlap and difference between them, and captures the lived experience of the state's enterprise of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules. Ultimately, the essays call into question the adequacy of a view of punishment and/or regulation that neglects the perspectives of those who are at the receiving end of these exercises of state power.