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The Desire to Know the Criminal The Desire to Know the Criminal
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The Urge to Categorize The Urge to Categorize
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The Impulse to Insure The Impulse to Insure
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The Structural Transformations of the Criminal Law The Structural Transformations of the Criminal Law
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Displacing Theories of Punishment Displacing Theories of Punishment
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Reshaping Reality, Producing Conformity Reshaping Reality, Producing Conformity
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Six The Pull of Prediction: Distorting Our Conceptions of Just Punishment
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Published:December 2006
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Abstract
This chapter explores the relationship between technical knowledge and our conceptions of just punishment. The structural transformation of our conception of just punishment at the end of the twentieth century is a case study in justice conforming itself to our developing technical knowledge. It is a case of philosophical and legal notions of justice following technical progress. And what is remarkable is that the impulse, the original catalyst, the stimulant in all this was exogenous to the legal system. It came from the field of sociology and from the positivist desire to place human behavior on a more scientific level—from the desire to control human behavior, just as we control nature. The rise of the actuarial itself was born of the desire to know the criminal scientifically, and this scientific drive produced the technical knowledge that colonized our jurisprudential conception of just punishment.
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