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Book Review: Censure and Sanctions

Book Review: Censure and Sanctions Book Reviews 327 posited by the legal system. In so far as autopoiesis is structurally precluded from grasping the moral-practical foundations of the law it is rendered incapable of understanding, let alone dealing with, the relationship between law and society. And any sociology of law that cannot do this, regardless of whether it is as brilliantly conceived, elaborated and explicated as Teubner's theory, faces insurmountable difficulties in proving itself to be normatively and empirically fruitful. Robert Shelly University of New South Wales, Sydney Censure and Sanctions, Andrew von Hirsch, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1993), 133 pp. Despite von Hirsch's comments in the Preface, this is not so much a book as a collection of essays (he has in fact reworked a number of previous articles as well as adding a significant amount of material). Three broad themes are, however, distinguishable. First, he critiques recent developments in the field of, loosely speaking, censure. Second, he revisits his work on proportionality and desert in light of both these developments and areas of theoretical neglect (such as intermediate sanctions). Third, he subjects his ideas on desert to the exigencies of the political milieu. The wide range of discrete issues canvassed makes this a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1995
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486589502800308
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Book Reviews 327 posited by the legal system. In so far as autopoiesis is structurally precluded from grasping the moral-practical foundations of the law it is rendered incapable of understanding, let alone dealing with, the relationship between law and society. And any sociology of law that cannot do this, regardless of whether it is as brilliantly conceived, elaborated and explicated as Teubner's theory, faces insurmountable difficulties in proving itself to be normatively and empirically fruitful. Robert Shelly University of New South Wales, Sydney Censure and Sanctions, Andrew von Hirsch, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1993), 133 pp. Despite von Hirsch's comments in the Preface, this is not so much a book as a collection of essays (he has in fact reworked a number of previous articles as well as adding a significant amount of material). Three broad themes are, however, distinguishable. First, he critiques recent developments in the field of, loosely speaking, censure. Second, he revisits his work on proportionality and desert in light of both these developments and areas of theoretical neglect (such as intermediate sanctions). Third, he subjects his ideas on desert to the exigencies of the political milieu. The wide range of discrete issues canvassed makes this a

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1995

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