juridico-legal

English

Etymology

From juridico- +‎ legal.

Adjective

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.