juridico-legal

adjective

Pertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.

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Meanings

adjectivejuridico-legal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.

    It is distinct from preceding ideological analyses and formulations of power in juridico-legal terms.

    2016, Gary Browning, A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation, →ISBN
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    Mechanisms of security do not replace disciplinary mechanisms, which would have replaced juridico-legal mechanisms.

    2007, M. Foucault, Arnold I. Davidson, Security, Territory, Population, →ISBN

    The call for justice entails, beyond the trial of isolated individuals, an interrogation of the Mexican juridico-legal structures: the objective of the mobilization is to question the model of the nation, hence to dismantle state institutions that monopolize violence while claiming to be democratic.

    2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering, →ISBN

Origin

From juridico- + legal.

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