Rights and Wrongs : Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice Paperback / softback
by William C. Heffernan
Part of the Critical Criminological Perspectives series
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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.
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- Pages:149 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 149 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:02/10/2020
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- ISBN:9783030127848
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:149 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 149 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:02/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030127848
