| Description |
This is an interdisciplinary research seminar designed to contextualize recent intellectual contributions on law, social order, and deviancy in East Asia. By drawing on political and social theories regarding marginalization, state rationality, and the public construction of justice, we will consider how the historical development of local prosecutorial and penal cultures reflects the spread of rationalized state institutions and of political and civil rights, even as these are shaped by local political demands. We will also examine how changing debates about crime and deviancy reinforce or challenge patterns of power. |