NCJ Number
120928
Journal
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 28 Issue: 4 Dated: special issue (November 1989) Pages: 255-271
Date Published
1989
Length
17 pages
Annotation
The way that extreme cases of alternative justice, such as the non-State forms of private justice in co-operatives and how they reproduce capitalist legal control forms, even where co-optation is absent, is examined.
Abstract
Drawing on the constitutive social theory of Giddens and others, the paper points to the inevitability of such reproduction by marginal justice institutions. This inevitability is argued to result from marginal justice practitioners sharing a common repository of control talk which impedes but does not exclude their ability to sustain divergent forms of justice. How genuine alternatives might develop is then considered. 48 references. (Author abstract modified)