Rehabilitation or Retribution? “Cultures of Control” and Policies vis-à-vis Renegade regimes
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The paper suggests a framework for analyzing democracies’ policies towards renegade regimes, i.e. regimes whose defining feature is regarded to be norm-breaking (e.g. Iran or North Korea). The paper argues that policies towards renegade regimes are heavily influenced by domestic cultures of control because the problem of recurrent violations of community norms as posed by renegade regimes to the international community is similar to the problem posed by criminals in domestic society. Thus, states with a retributive culture of control follow a confrontational policy towards renegade regimes, fed by a “criminology of the other” that is based on the assumption that certain criminals are simply evil and therefore intrinsically different from the rest of community. In contrast, states with a “penal-welfarist” or “rehabilitative” culture of control follow a more accomodationist policy, aiming at the resocialisation of the renegade into the community.. Author’s contact details: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Political Science De Boelelaan 1081 NL-1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands [email protected]
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Wolfgang Wagner Rehabilitation or Retribution ? “ Cultures of Control ” and Policies vis - à - vis Renegade States
The paper suggests a framework for analyzing democracies’ policies towards renegade states, i.e. states whose defining feature is regarded to be norm-breaking (e.g. Iran or North Korea). The paper argues that policies towards renegade states are heavily influenced by domestic cultures of control because the problem of recurrent violations of community norms as posed by renegade states to the in...
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