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The Will to Punish (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) by Didier Fassin (Author), Christopher Kutz (Editor) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Will to Punish (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) about?

Over the last few decades, most societies have become more repressive, their laws more relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the evolution of crime. In The Will to Punish, using an approach both genealogical and ethnographic, distinguished anthropologist Didier Fassin addresses the major issues raised by this punitive moment through an inquiry into the very foundations of punishment. What is punishment? Why punish? Who is punished? Through these three questions, he init

Who reads The Will to Punish (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Didier Fassin (Author), Christopher Kutz (Editor)
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780190888596
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Psychology, Law, Social Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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