The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange

The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange

Alison Liebling and Leo Zaibert of the University of Cambridge, England, explore the modern prison as a site of suffering from the perspectives of empirical criminology and philosophical ethics. Prisons are the predominant means through which states punish wrongdoers. Punishment, by definition, is supposed to be painful, unpleasant, or a matter of making wrongdoers suffer (as Prof Leo Zaibert tends to put it). Reflecting on her long and path-breaking career devoted to understanding prisons, in her forthcoming book (working title: Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity and Justice), Prof Alison Liebling exposes the excesses of suffering and inhumanity often, perhaps increasingly, found in prisons. It is not merely that bad prisons happen to punish much more severely than they are supposed to do, but that the excessive suffering they inflict is often damaging and cruel in ways that are actually at odds with the declared rehabilitative goals of the criminal justice system. With Prof Liebling’s forthcoming book as a background, this conversation will explore some of the problematic aspects of modern prisons and punishment.

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Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective

Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective

This international workshop features contributors to our forthcoming Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue on “Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective,” guest edited by Clifford Ando (University...

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Criminal Law and Language

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This MCLR+ workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors to a forthcoming Special Issue of the Modern Criminal Law Review, showcasing a selection of cutting-edg...

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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment

Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment

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15 Apr 1h 40min

Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel)

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Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to throw off the colonial yoke, yet retaining a criminal justice system design...

5 Nov 20251h 43min

Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud

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Chloë Kennedy’s Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge 2024) tackles an important and timely topic that resonates across jurisdictions worldwide–the regulation of deceptively ind...

5 Jun 20252h 17min

Indian Criminal Law Since 2010: What’s Changed?

Indian Criminal Law Since 2010: What’s Changed?

On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (1st ed. 2010) [https://www.sup.org/books/law/handboo...], a panel of experts reflects ...

5 Apr 20251h 40min

From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience

From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience

In The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature (Oxford 2024), Elise Wang explores the medieval origins and surprising modern resilience of “felony” in contemporary criminal law. Since ...

18 Jan 202538min

Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage (Pt. 2)

Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage (Pt. 2)

This is Part 2 of a two-part international & interdisciplinary workshop exploring economic discrimination in criminal justice systems around the world. [Part 1 (Fri, Sept 13, 2024) is here: https://cr...

22 Sep 20242h 4min

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