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Money and the Governance of Punishment

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A Genealogy of the Penal Fine

Money and the Governance of Punishment

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Money and the Governance of Punishment book

A Genealogy of the Penal Fine
ByPatricia Faraldo-Cabana
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 9 June 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542720
Pages 244
eBook ISBN 9781315542720
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Law, Social Sciences
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Faraldo-Cabana, P. (2017). Money and the Governance of Punishment: A Genealogy of the Penal Fine (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542720

ABSTRACT

Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions, imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and in some jurisdictions many of those in prison are there because of failure to pay their fines. Therefore, it is surprising how little has been written in the Anglophone academic world about the nature of money sanctions and their specific characteristics as legal sanctions.

In many ways, legal innovations related to money sanctions have been poorly understood. This book argues that they are a direct consequence of the changing meaning of money. Considering the ‘meaninglessness’ of modern money, the book aims to examine the history of changing conceptions in how fines have been conceived and used. Using a set of interpretative techniques sensitive to how money and freedom are perceived, the genealogy of the penal fine is presented as a story of constant reformulation in response to shifting political pressures and changes in intellectual developments that influenced ideological commitments of legislators and practitioners.

This book is multi-disciplinary and will appeal to those engaged with criminology, sociology and philosophy of punishment, socio-legal studies, and criminal law.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|22 pages

Making offenders pay

chapter 2|32 pages

The fine as the ideal penal sanction in the age of the Enlightenment

chapter 3|24 pages

The impersonality of money

Why and how fines paid by an innocent third party were prohibited

chapter 4|49 pages

The unequal distribution of money and the (un)fairness of fines

Why and how fines were made affordable

chapter 5|38 pages

The expansion of the fine in the twentieth century

chapter 6|52 pages

The triumph of the day-fine system? National perspectives and comparative approaches

chapter 7|6 pages

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