Rights and Wrongs
Rights and Wrongs
This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed only for wrongdoing, the book proposes a criterion for repudiating the legal paternalism that informs drug-possession laws.
Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice outlines steps for taming the state's power to punish offenders; in particular, it draws on restorative justice research to outline possibilities for a penology that emphasizes offenders' humanity. Through its examination of equality issues, the book integrates recent work on the social justice/criminal justice connection into the scholarly literature on punishment, and so will particularly appeal to those interested in criminal justice theory.
<p>1. Introduction
2. Thinking about Justice3. Thinking about Criminal Justice.-4. Redressing Grievances: The Retaliation Model
5. Redressing Grievances: The Criminal Justice Model. 6. Decriminalization
7. Policing the Police
8. State-Imposed Punishment
9. Equality: Racial and Class Disparities in the Context of State-Imposed Punishment
10. Afterword.</p>
Heffernan, William C.
| ISBN | 978-3-030-12784-8 |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 9783030127848 |
| Medientyp | Buch |
| Auflage | 1st ed. 2019 |
| Copyrightjahr | 2020 |
| Verlag | Springer, Berlin |
| Umfang | XII, 149 Seiten |
| Abbildungen | XII, 149 p. 1 illus. |
| Sprache | Englisch |
