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Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)
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Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)
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What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that
separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the
distinction between punishment and vengeance-punishment being the
measured use of legally sanctioned violence and vengeance being a
use of violence that has no measure-is expressed by the idea of
"cruel and unusual punishment." This phrase was originally
contained in the English Bill of Rights (1689). But it (and
versions of it) has since found its way into numerous constitutions
and declarations, including Article 5 of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, as well as the Amendment to the US Constitution.
Clearly, in order for the use of violence to be legitimate, it must
be subject to limitation. The difficulty is that the determination
of this limit should be objective, but it is not, and its
application in punitive practice is constituted by a host of
extra-legal factors and social and political structures. It is this
essential contestability of the limit which distinguishes
punishment from violence that this book addresses. And, including
contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, it
offers a plurality of original and important responses to the
contemporary question of the relationship between punishment and
the limits of law.
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