Aviram, Hadar, Progressive Punitivism: Notes on the Use of Punitive Social Control to Advance Social Justice Ends (June 14, 2019).
Buffalo Law Review, Forthcoming; UC Hastings Research Paper No. 364. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3404276 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3404276.
Abstract: This essay examines the emergence of an academic and popular discourse that advocates turning the cannons of the punitive machine against the powerful. I identify this discourse as “progressive punitivism”: a logic that wields the classic weapons of punitive law — shaming, stigmatization, harsh punishment, and denial of rehabilitation — in the service of promoting social equality. This ...
