Full Description
The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension of criminalizing justice; namely, accusation.
Criminal accusation, however, does more than define the outer borders of criminal justice institutions. It is directly implicated in providing a steady flow of potential criminals who are fed into expanding criminal justice arenas. Despite the basic politics through which legal persons are selected to face possible criminalization, there are few analyses directed at how accusation works in theoretical, historical, criminological, social, cultural, and procedural realms. By highlighting the constitutive role of criminal accusation on individuals, the judicial system, and society as a whole, this book establishes an important new field of inquiry.
Contents
Introduction: Framing Criminal Accusation / George Pavlich and Matthew P. Unger
Part 1: Framing Accusation - Logic, Ritual, and Grammar
1 Apparatuses of Criminal Accusation / George Pavlich
2 Declining Accusation / Mark Antaki
Part 2: Genealogies, Colonial Legalities, and Criminal Accusations
3 Criminal Accusation as Colonial Rule: The Case of Gurdit Singh (1859-1954) / Renisa Mawani
4 Codification and the Colonies: Who's Accusing Whom? / Keally McBride
Part 3: Criminal Accusation as Discourse - Subjectivization, Truth, Ethics
5 Guilty Without Accusation: Legal Passions and the Misinterpellation of Subjects in Althusser and Kafka / James Martel
6 Accusation in the Absence of Crisis: The Banality of Evil, Responsibility, and the Tragedy of Adjudication / Jennifer L. Culbert
7 The Forgetfulness of Accusation / Matthew P. Unger
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