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    Liberty and Insecurity in the Criminal Law: Lessons from Thomas Hobbes
    Criminal Law and Philosophy 11 (2): 249-271. 2017.
    In this paper, I provide an extensive examination of the political theory of Thomas Hobbes in order to discuss its relevance to an understanding of contemporary issues and challenges faced by criminal law and criminal justice theory. I start by proposing that a critical analysis of Hobbes’s account of punishment reveals a paradox that not only is fundamental to understanding his model of political society, but also can offer important insights into the preventive turn experienced by advanced lib…Read more
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    Making the Modern Criminal Law and the paradox of civil order
    Jurisprudence 10 (1): 103-109. 2019.
    Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2019, Page 103-109.
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    The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law
    Oxford University Press UK. 2017.
    Through a theoretical examination of the preventive turn in criminal law and justice which has gained momentum in Anglo-American criminal justice systems since the late-twentieth century, The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law demonstrates how recent transformations in criminal law and justiceare intrinsically related to and embedded in the way liberal society and liberal law have been imagined, developed, and conditioned by its social, political, and historical context. Henrique Carvalho identifie…Read more
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    This paper critically examines our relationship with justice in contemporary western liberal settings, with a particular focus on why our pursuit of justice is intimately entangled with punitive logics. It does so by defining this approach to justice as predominantly pathological, in the sense that it follows a logic that is akin to that displayed in our contemporary sensibilities regarding bodily pain. We deploy the concept of ‘dys-appearance’ used by Drew Leder in the context of his theory of …Read more
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    Between persecution and reconciliation : criminal justice, legal form and human emancipation
    with Craig Reeves and Alan Norrie
    In Emilios A. Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes & Marco Goldoni (eds.), Research handbook on critical legal theory, Edward Elgar Publishing. 2019.