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The Process Is the Punishment: Thirty Years Later

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jennifer Earl
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Abstract

This essay reviews the arguments and impacts of the classic work, The Process Is the Punishment by Malcolm Feeley, originally published in 1979 and republished with a new foreword and preface in 1992. This essay examines how the book has been used in sociolegal research since 1979 by empirically tracing its citation in published work. I also examine missed opportunities where The Process Is the Punishment could still expand its impact in the literature, as well as reviewing the major arguments and criticisms of the book.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , Summer 2008 , pp. 735 - 778
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2008 

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