Self-Critique, (Anti) Politics and Criminalization: Reflections on the History and Trajectory of the Human Rights Movement

Engle, Karen

doi:10.1007/978-90-6704-879-8_2

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“…However, the embrace of the criminal justice system by the human rights movement has required a significant shift, because in its early days it associated criminal justice with repression (Engle, 2012). Vis-a-vis state power, human rights organizations have predominantly focused on the rights of defendants, epitomized by Amnesty International’s emphasis on ‘prisoners of conscience’ as its founding human rights victim in 1961.…”

Section: Penal Humanitarianism Beyond the Nation Statementioning

confidence: 99%

Penal humanitarianism beyond the nation state: An analysis of international criminal justice

Lohne

2018

Theoretical Criminology

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In a recent account of border control, Mary Bosworth introduces the notion of ‘penal humanitarianism’ to describe how humanitarianism enables penal power to move beyond the nation state. Based on a study of international criminal justice, this article applies and develops the notion of penal humanitarianism, and argues that that power to punish is particularly driven by humanitarian reason when punishment is disembedded from the nation state altogether. Disguising the fact of situatedness through claims to the global and universal, international criminal justice is not only a product of situated relations of power, but also constitutes new geographies of penal power. By complicating notions of humanitarianism, penal power and the state, international criminal justice raises interesting questions about the epistemological privilege of the nation state framework in the sociology of punishment.

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Section: Penal Humanitarianism Beyond the Nation Statementioning

confidence: 99%