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Penal (Ant)Agonism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

Johann Koehler
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Abstract

In Breaking the Pendulum, Goodman, Page, and Phelps (2017) advance an “agonistic” perspective that contends struggle drives penal change, and that it does so through perpetual conflict. Yet studying only manifest struggles, when an actor made their resistance to a penal status quo known, presents thorny problems in conceptualizing conflict. One such problem is that conflict among agonists advocating competing penal policies presupposes consensus between those who threaten penal order’s basic conditions. Understanding penal agonism’s corollary, penal antagonism, offers a more complete starting point from which to theorize penal history and penality.

Type
Review Symposium: Rethinking the Pendulum Model of Criminal Justice History
Information
Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , pp. 799 - 805
Copyright
© 2019 American Bar Foundation 

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