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This chapter considers two main types of resistance to punishment: by those subject to punishment themselves and by campaigns, the two selected for discussion here being those against corporal and capital punishment.
A main basis for effective protest and struggle is that you contribute — and are inside and positive. But then an important main ground for the protest is simultaneously taken away. What you ought to wish to protest against is precisely the fact that the ones who do not contribute, are resolutely expelled. What you ought to wish to protest against, then, is the very basis of our type of society. But the main basis of our type of society is such that protest easily becomes effective only if it takes place on this basis. And thereby it is no longer really a protest.
(Mathiesen, 1974, pp. 197–8)
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Adams, R. (1998). Resistance to Punishment. In: Campling, J. (eds) The Abuses of Punishment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389281_10
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