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RobinsonsMetamorphosisTalk 5 - 28 Feb 2008 - Main.MichaelBerkovits
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< | "The criminal law represents civilation's pathology" | >
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< | It seems that the piece is summarized in this line where Robinson is quoting some outside source. The phrase "Criminal law", not crime or law generallly, show the peculiar nature of criminal law in showing the disease of 'civilazation'. Although the phrase in isolation could mean the laws deemed crime are an effort to quarantine the diseases (psychological, emotional ets.) of society, within the framework of the piece, Robinson is suggesting that the way the criminal law works is a representation of the diseases. The very mechanism that we attempt to use to 'conceal' or 'deal' with our own pathology is where it is most apparent, not as a result of the people we deem criminals, but through those charged with adminstering it. | >
> | It seems that the piece is summarized in this line where Robinson is quoting some outside source. The phrase "Criminal law", not crime or law generally, show the peculiar nature of criminal law in showing the disease of 'civilization'. Although the phrase in isolation could mean the laws deemed crime are an effort to quarantine the diseases (psychological, emotional ets.) of society, within the framework of the piece, Robinson is suggesting that the way the criminal law works is a representation of the diseases. The very mechanism that we attempt to use to 'conceal' or 'deal' with our own pathology is where it is most apparent, not as a result of the people we deem criminals, but through those charged with administering it. | | | His disdain is for the lawyers and judges involved in the process including, it seems, for himself not those who are subject to it. | |
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< | Maybe the the best way to improve society is not through the 'deterrence', 'retribution', etc. that criminal law espouses but instead through a thorough analyis of the defiencies of the criminal system not in regards to how it treats criminals, but with an eye toward what that means about we treat citizens both inside and outside of it. | >
> | Maybe the the best way to improve society is not through the 'deterrence', 'retribution', etc. that criminal law espouses but instead through a thorough analysis of the deficiencies of the criminal system not in regards to how it treats criminals, but with an eye toward what that means about we treat citizens both inside and outside of it. | | | -- BetreGizaw - 28 Feb 2008
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