Rethinking Punishment

Speaker(s):

Professor Didier Fassin, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris

Associated with:

Border Criminologies

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What is punishment? Why do we punish? Who gets punished? Based on a series of ethnographies conducted on policing, the justice system and the prison institution, this lecture will critically revisit theoretical discussions related to the definition, justification and distribution of punishment.