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The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant And Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment
The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant And Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment
Authored by Luc Lelièvre via Mises Institute,
Loïc Wacquant and Murray Rothbard come from completely different worlds. Wacquant, in Punishing the Poor (2009), analyzes how modern states manage marginalized populations through policing and incarceration. Rothbard, in The Ethics of Liberty (1982), argues that the state is a monopoly of coercion and that real justice means restitution to victims rather than punishment imposed by the government. At first glance, they seem to have nothing in common. Yet, when you look closely...
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