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1st Edition

Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law

Edited By Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols Copyright 2018
206 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
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    2. Mark Kingwell

  2. Cruel and thus not Unusual: Jacques Derrida’s Seminar on the Death Penalty

    3. Michael Naas

  3. The Violent Rhetoric of Accusation: Cicero and the Marcus Ameleus Scaurus Case

    4. G. Pavlich

  4. The Colonialism of Incarceration

    5. Robert Nichols

  5. "Ran away from her Master…a Negroe Girl named Thursday": Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, and Trauma in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements

    6. Charmaine Nelson

  6. The Work of Death: Massacre and Retribution in Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831

    7. Christopher Tomlins

  7. Civilising Missions and Humanitarian Interventions: into the Laws and Territories of First Nations

    8. Irene Watson

  8. The Rhetoric of Abolition: Continuity and Change in the Struggle Against America’s Death Penalty, 1900-2010

    9. Austin Sarat, Robert Kermes, Adelyn Curran, Margaret Kiley, Keshav Pant

  9. "Too wicked to die": The enduring legacy of humane reforms to solitary confinement

    10. Kelly Struthers Munford, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, and Alex Hunter

  10. Nonviolent communion versus medieval ships of fools: Engaged-citizenry alternatives to Europe’s war on refugees
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Biography

Joshua Nichols is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and a Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation.

Amy Swiffen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

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