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The dual penal state : the crisis of criminal law in comparative-historical perspective / Markus D. Dubber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubber, Markus D., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment.
- Criminal law.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This text provides an accessible introduction to the theoretical frameworks of the dual penal state. Taking an issue-led approach, the study locates criminal law in its analytic, comparative, historical, and doctrinal contexts, and aims to stimulate critical reflection beyond the constraints of a particular jurisdiction.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-106178-6
- 0-19-180575-0
- 0-19-106177-8
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