Book contents
- Injury and Injustice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Injury and Injustice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
- Chapter One The Meaning of Injury
- Chapter Two Injury in the Unresponsive State
- Chapter Three “One Small Characteristic”
- Chapter Four Righteous Injuries
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter Four - Righteous Injuries
Victim's Rights, Discretion, and Forbearance in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning
from Part I - Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2018
Book contents
- Injury and Injustice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Injury and Injustice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
- Chapter One The Meaning of Injury
- Chapter Two Injury in the Unresponsive State
- Chapter Three “One Small Characteristic”
- Chapter Four Righteous Injuries
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
Arzoo Osanloo’s chapter examines injury through the logic of criminal sanctioning in Iran. In that context, the criminal code permits individual victims and their heirs to demand in-kind retribution for tortious injuries, including death for murder. The law also permits victims to forgo the right of retribution and even encourages state officials, including judges, to arrive at a settlement that leads to forbearance. The law is silent, however, with respect to any guidance on how to bring about the victim’s forbearance. With particular attention to the discretionary power of judges, Osanloo explores how the law forges an affective space through which different actors participate in the work of encouraging forbearance—beyond vengeance and retribution.
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- Injury and InjusticeThe Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, pp. 96 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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