Didier Fassin ; with commentary by Bruce Western, Rebecca M. Mclennan, David W. Garland ; edited and introduced by Christopher Kutz.
New York City :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
1809
1 online resource
The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Series; The Will to Punish; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; The will to punish; Prologue: A Tale of Two Societies; Chapter 1: What Is Punishment?; Chapter 2: Why Does One Punish?; Chapter 3: Who Gets Punished?; Conclusion: Rethinking Punishment; Comments; Violence, Poverty, Values, and the Will to Punish; Ideal Theory and Historical Complexity; The Rule of Law, Representational Struggles, and the Will to Punish; Reply; What Is a Critique of Punishment?; Index
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In The Will to Punish, Didier Fassin interrogates the philosophical presuppositions of modern punishment. Through his own fieldwork, history and anthropology, Fassin breaks the conceptual links between crime and punishment, showing that states punish without crime, and that the extent of punishment's focus on marginalized communities means that it lies beyond any rational justification.