Rethinking Punishment
Event date
16 February 2017
Event time
18:30 - 20:00
Oxford week
Venue
Hong Kong Theatre Clement House
Speaker(s)
Professor Didier Fassin
Notes & Changes
This is an external event
What is punishment? Why do we punish? Who gets punished? Based on a series of ethnographies conducted on policing, the justice system and the prison institution, this lecture will critically revisit theoretical discussions related to the definition, justification and distribution of punishment.