JUSTICE, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN 16TH-CEN TURY MAROCCO

In this article, we have tried to analyze the punitive systems in 16th -century Marocco as one element in the political power strategy aimed at obtaining a monopoly over legitimate violence. From this particular point of view, we explore the sentences and the forms of execution, t heir pedagogical and exemplary character, the symbolic meaning of the physical mark, the discourse on order and disorder, etc., all the whil e emphasizing the fluidity of the frontier between the legal and margi nal world.