Law's knowledge: On the susceptibility and resistance of legal practices to security matters

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 379-394

  Krasmann, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foucault; governing security; governmentality; knowledge production; legal theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870016132     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: 14617439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480612446775     Document Type: Article

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