In:
Law and History Review, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 16, No. 1 ( 1998), p. 159-162
Abstract:
Kenneth Ledford's and Michael Meranze's insightful comments raise important questions about the nature of legal history in general, and of the history of punishment in particular. According to Ledford and Meranze, modern legal history is social history, to be distinguished from “old-style intellectual history.” A product of the latter “historical method no longer in favor,” “The Right to Be Punished” draws Ledford's and Meranze's criticism for its insufficient “root[s]… in the soil of social history” and for its inadequate “account of the … social basis of the modern will to punish” and “the social embeddedness of punishment.”
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0738-2480
,
1939-9022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1998
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2050177-8
SSG:
2
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