Currency of Justice
Fines and monetary damages account for the majority of legal sanctions across the whole spectrum of legal governance. Money is, in key respects, the primary tool law has to achieve compliance. Yet money has largely been ignored by social analyses of law, and especially by social theory.
The Currency of Justice examines the differing rationalities, aims and assumptions built into money’s deployment ...
Fines and monetary damages account for the majority of legal sanctions across the whole spectrum of legal governance. Money is, in key respects, the primary tool law has to achieve compliance. Yet money has largely been ignored by social analyses of law, and especially by social theory.
The Currency of Justice examines the differing rationalities, aims and assumptions built into money’s deployment ...
