You Say Regulation, I Say Punishment: The Semantics and Attributes of Punitive Activity

    Authors

    K. Lucken

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Crit. Criminol.

    Keywords

    SOCIAL-CONTROL; MENTAL-ILLNESS; SEX OFFENDERS; POWER; EXPERIENCE; DEVIANCE; JUSTICE; LAW; Criminology & Penology

    Abstract

    Recent trends in crime control have given new energy to an age-old question, namely what kinds of activity qualify as punishment. In addressing this question, jurists and scholars have often employed a logic that either restricts interpretations of punishment to traditional forms (e.g., prison, probation, death penalty) and functions (e.g., deterrence and retribution), or expands them to include the broader forms and functions of social control. This paper examines these opposing logics and considers an alternative logic based in common stipulations in power theory. Within this particular framework, punishment is conceived as action that is necessarily relational, intentional, personal and coercive.

    Journal Title

    Critical Criminology

    Volume

    21

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    193

    Last Page

    210

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000317927300004

    ISSN

    1205-8629

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