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    This book questions punishment as concept, social phenomenon and contemporary practice. It unpacks punishment’s nature and the assumptions that underpin it, examines its targets, objectives and implications, locates punishment and punitivity within their social contexts, and aims to unsettle the idea that there is something common-sensical, necessary and unavoidable about punitive justice ... Read more

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    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    This book presents a theoretical examination of the rise and expansion of preventive criminal offences that has gained momentum in Anglo-American criminal justice since the late-twentieth century. It shows how recent transformations in criminal law and justice are intrinsically related to and embedded in the way liberal society and liberal law have been imagined, developed and conditioned by their ... Read more

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  • The Embodied State

    Emotions, State Power and Social Marginalisation

    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    This edited collection advances a reconceptualisation of state power through emotions. Methodologically, it rethinks the study of the state from the bottom up, by seeking contributions that engage with performances and enactments of state power at the ground level, by frontline staff in direct contact with marginalised populations, and those that reflect on encounters with symbols and practices of ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing the Criminal Question

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    Within the discipline of criminology and criminal justice, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between criminal law, punishment, and imperialism, or the contours and exercise of penal power in the Global South. Decolonizing the Criminal Question is the first work of its kind to comprehensively place colonialism and its legacies at the heart of criminological enquiry. By ... Read more

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  • XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019

    Proceedings of MEDICON 2019, September 26-28, 2019, Coimbra, Portugal

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
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    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
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