Proud to Punish. The Global Landscape of Rough Justice - Gilles Favarel Garrigues & Laurent Gayer

Date: 
09/01/2024

Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2024, 234 p. Translated by Cynthia Schoch and Trista Selous

A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "rough justice": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law. While taking many forms, including vigilantism, lynch mobs, people's courts, and death squads, all seekers of rough justice thrive on the deliberate blurring of lines between law enforcers and troublemakers. Digital networks have provided a profitable arena for vigilantes, who use social media to build a following and publicize their work, as they debase the bodies of the accused for purposes of edification and entertainment. It is this unabashed pride to punish, and the new punitive celebrations that actualize, publicize, and commercialize it, that this book brings into focus. Recounted in lively prose, Proud to Punish is both a global map of rough justice today and an insight into the deeper nature of punishment as a social and political phenomenon.

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Introduction of the book
Introduction. Breaking the Law to Maintain Order
Gilles Favarel Garrigues and Laurent Gayer

Video
26 March 2024
Le monde des justiciers hors-la-loi
Conférence de Gilles Favarel-Garrigues autour du livre, Avenue centrale. Rendez-vous en sciences humaines (MSH-Alpes)

Entretiens du CERI
10 May 2021
La loi des justiciers. Vigilantisme et maintien de l'ordre
Entretien avec Gilles Favarel Garrigues et Laurent Gayer par Miriam Périer

06 May 2021
Punishing with Pride. Vigilantism and Policing
Interview with Gilles Favarel Garrigues and Laurent Gayer by Miriam Périer

Promotion of the French version
2021
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