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

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TextSeries: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thoughtPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (185 p.)ISBN:

9780804782111

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

345.077 23

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K5103 .L369 2011

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Summary: 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 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.

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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 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.

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