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Money and the Governance of Punishment - A Genealogy of the Penal Fine (Paperback)
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Money and the Governance of Punishment - A Genealogy of the Penal Fine (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
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Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to
punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other
sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions,
imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and
in some jurisdictions many of those in prison are there because of
failure to pay their fines. Therefore, it is surprising how little
has been written in the Anglophone academic world about the nature
of money sanctions and their specific characteristics as legal
sanctions. In many ways, legal innovations related to money
sanctions have been poorly understood. This book argues that they
are a direct consequence of the changing meaning of money.
Considering the 'meaninglessness' of modern money, the book aims to
examine the history of changing conceptions in how fines have been
conceived and used. Using a set of interpretative techniques
sensitive to how money and freedom are perceived, the genealogy of
the penal fine is presented as a story of constant reformulation in
response to shifting political pressures and changes in
intellectual developments that influenced ideological commitments
of legislators and practitioners. This book is multi-disciplinary
and will appeal to those engaged with criminology, sociology and
philosophy of punishment, socio-legal studies, and criminal law.
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