In this Special Issue (guest edited by Nicola Lacey, LSE), a diverse range of authors confront questions about whether, and how, we can reconstruct criminal law (as well as its associated institutional forms, including the trial and the penal process) in progressive ways. Amid a resurgence of interest in abolitionism, is there still space for a scholarship focused on critique oriented to reconstruction rather than abolition? And what are the conditions of existence of such reconstructive projects across both different areas of criminal law and practice and different jurisdictions?
Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited
Nicola Lacey
[pdf] [html]
What Does It Mean to Reconstruct Criminal Law? Reading Mannheim’s Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction (1946)
Lindsay Farmer
[pdf] [html]
Hyper-Knowledge and the Legitimation of Criminal Law
Arlie Loughnan
[pdf] [html]
A Respect Standard for Sentencing
Gabrielle Watson
[pdf] [html]
Excusing Unjustified Punishment: On Doing Criminal Justice in Unjust Societies
Rocío Lorca
[pdf] [html]
Re-Constructing Criminal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Argentina 1990-2024
Alejandro Chehtman
[pdf] [html]
Citizens, State Fallibilities, and Responsibility in Criminal Law
Marie Manikis
[pdf] [html]
Should We Abolish Hate Crime Law or Is There a Case for Its Reconstruction?
Roxana Willis
[pdf] [html]
Finding Common Ground: Reconstructing Criminology with Epistemic Justice
Meredith Rossner, Elfie Shiosaki & Helen Taylor
[pdf] [html]
► Looking for other Modern Criminal Law Review issues? Here they are.
► To stay informed about upcoming MCLR+ events, publications, and projects, please sign up for the MCLR+ mailing list and check the MCLR+ website; to receive notifications about new video content, subscribe to our YouTube channel.