The Dual Penal State
The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20006339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus D Dubber (0000-0002-1799-3040, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dual Penal State (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198744290.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2901884929 |
| Open Library | OL28693646M |
| ISBN | 9780198744290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective addresses one of today’s most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these states operate in a wide field of ill-considered and little constrained violence, where radical and prolonged interference with the autonomy of the very persons upon whose autonomy the legitimacy of state power is supposed to rest has been utterly normalized. At bottom, this crisis of modern penality is a crisis of the liberal project itself; the penal paradox is merely the sharpest formulation of the general paradox of power in a liberal state: the legitimacy of state sovereignty in the name of personal autonomy. To capture the depth and range of the crisis of contemporary penality in ostensibly liberal states, Dual Penal State leaves behind customary temporal and parochial constraints, and turns to historical and comparative analysis instead. This approach reveals a fundamental distinction between two conceptions of penal power, penal law and penal police, that run through Western legal-political history, one rooted in autonomy, equality, and interpersonal respect, and the other in heteronomy, hierarchy, and patriarchal power. Dual penal state analysis illuminates how this distinction manifests itself in the history of the present of various penal systems, from the malign neglect of the American war on crime to the ahistorical self-satisfaction of German criminal law science
Autonomy · Criminal law · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Criminal Law and Policy · Law · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Administration of Criminal justice · History
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |