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office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
The article investigates the link between body and freedom as a guiding issue for conceptualizing racism. Based on the reflections developed by Emanuel Levinas, it shows how nazi antisemitism reuses the model of race conceived in the early modern history. It discusses the connections between the modern racist discourse and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Finally, it...
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
The paper seeks toshed light on José Miguel Wisnik’s contribution in his recent book. He integrates the history of development and mining in Brazil, which had as one of its hallmarks the creation of Rio Doce Valley Corporation (CVRD in Portuguese), and Drummond’s poetic invention, deeply affected by the fate of Itabira, his hometown. Time and space are totally shattered by the...
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
In the 1960s, the issue of cultural and political resistance during the Brazilian military regime motivated intense debates and cultural manifestations in various areas of knowledge. In order to
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN
developments suggest that American penal philosophy may be inching toward norms—dignity, proportionality, legitimacy, and rehabilitation—that have checked draconian prison terms in Europe, Canada, and beyond. In ... divergence or convergence in penal philosophy. Notwithstanding the ebb and flow of penal attitudes, certain long-term trends have emerged in Western societies. They encompass a narrowing scope of offenders
occurs in alienation, does not match the historical events we discuss. It is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the "playful" and the "political", and thus we obliquely ... ://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/COY1_Bringel_Pleyers.pdf>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2015. 8Cf. WOOD, Ellen. Liberty and property: a social history of western political thought from the Renaissance to
is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the "playful" and the "political", and thus we obliquely rehabilitate Hegel's notion of alienation from Flusser's phenomenological ... ://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/COY1_Bringel_Pleyers.pdf>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2015. 8Cf. WOOD, Ellen. Liberty and property: a social history of western political thought from the Renaissance to
is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the "playful" and the "political", and thus we obliquely rehabilitate Hegel's notion of alienation from Flusser's phenomenological ... ://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/COY1_Bringel_Pleyers.pdf>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2015. 8Cf. WOOD, Ellen. Liberty and property: a social history of western political thought from the Renaissance to
meaning of political defeat, we argue that Schwarz develops two distinct and intertwined ways of treating the matter: one familiar with the Marxist critique of populism, and the other going beyond those ... notion of democratization. Analyzing those two ways and its dissonances, we reach an ambivalent understanding of political defeat – ambivalence that operates analytically as an index of a closer reading of
“About Brazilian authoritarianism” proposes to present in an accessible and didactic way the historical roots of Brazilian authoritarianism. This book is linked to a political context of crisis and ... face of the dangers of revisionism, falsification and naturalization of political violence. KEYWORDS Authoritarianism; Brazilian history; Brazilian social thought Para um historiador soaria
later bureaucratic policing institutions through taxes and political influence.25 In the North, those “mercantile interests” were “commercial elites” who wanted to transfer the costs of protecting their ... equal human, economic, and political rights.39 Meanwhile, police in general, including in the North, steadily grew into pervasive control mechanisms over an “underclass” comprised “primarily of the poor
PHILOSOPHY, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/consequentialism-rule [https://perma.cc/ 9JT2-FG52] (observing that consequentialists almost never defend a purely “actconsequentialist decision ... these activities.”); Gideon Yaffe, The Voluntary Act Requirement in THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 174, 176 (Andrei Marmor ed., 2012) (“If a defendant is . . . shown to have engaged in a
revolutionary perspective. In this context, the value of tradition does not stand on its own, but insofar as it admits a contemporary and transformative use, both at aesthetic and political spheres.Keywords
revolutionary perspective. In this context, the value of tradition does not stand on its own, but insofar as it admits a contemporary and transformative use, both at aesthetic and political spheres.Keywords
