law & policy
Exceptional Punishments
No one should be made to give up their rights in exchange for being spared from prison.
3 posts in ‘criminal legal theory’
No one should be made to give up their rights in exchange for being spared from prison.
The push to increase the state’s power to punish led to more incarceration but failed to create a more just society for victims of sexual violence.
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.