Law as punishment/law as regulation /

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Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (185 pages)
Language:English
Series:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280341
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Other authors / contributors:Sarat, Austin.
Douglas, Lawrence.
Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
ISBN:9780804782111
0804782113
9780804771702
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Law as punishment/law as regulation. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, 2011