juridico-legal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

juridico- +‎ legal

Adjective[edit]

juridico-legal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.
    • 2007, M. Foucault, Arnold I. Davidson, Security, Territory, Population, →ISBN:
      Mechanisms of security do not replace disciplinary mechanisms, which would have replaced juridico-legal mechanisms.
    • 2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering, →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.
    • 2016, Gary Browning, A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation, →ISBN:
      It is distinct from preceding ideological analyses and formulations of power in juridico-legal terms.