The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality
The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality
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过度刑罚的政治与殖民刑罚的回响
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10.1177/1462474502004004044
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
Mark Brown
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作者：
Mark Brown
西方国家最近倾向于更严厉的惩罚形式，这被解释为破坏了刑事现代性的核心原则：理性、科学主义和克制。对转向刑罚严厉的分析强调了各种因素，据说每一种因素都支持这种对现代刑罚理论的背离。在这篇文章中，我采取了刑罚过度的问题，而不是认为这是一个基本的和刑事现代性的核心要素。从一个明显的现代形成的历史材料-19世纪的殖民地国家-我说明了如何刑罚过度的想法和做法是中央的英属印度国家的宪法和治理的人口。因此，当前转向更过度的惩罚做法可能会在刑事现代性的递归框架内被解释，而不是标志着现代国家的终结或根本性转变。
Recent trends towards more severe forms of punishment in western nations have been interpreted as undermining the central tenets of penal modernity: rationality, scientism and restraint. Analyses of the turn to penal severity have emphasized a variety of factors, each said to underpin this departure from modern penal doctrines. In this article I take up the issue of penal excess, arguing instead that it is a foundational and central element of penal modernity. Drawing upon historical material from a distinctly modern formation - the 19th-century colonial state - I illustrate how the idea and practices of penal excess were central to the constitution of the state in British India and to the governance of its population. The current turn towards more excessive punishment practices may thus be interpreted within a framework of recursions within penal modernity, rather than as signalling an end or fundamental transformation of the modern state.