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From social justice to criminal justice : poverty and the administration of criminal law / edited by William C. Heffernan and John Kleinig.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Practical and professional ethics series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Practical and professional ethics series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume of essays by well-known philosophers of law and political philosophers looks at the ethical difficulties inherent in this situation from a variety of perspectives.
- Contents:
- Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. Poverty, Crime, and Criminal Justice; 2. Social Justice/Criminal Justice; 3. Aid without Egalitarianism: Assisting Indigent Defendants; 4. Why Indigence Is Not a Justification; 5. Deprivation and Desert; 6. The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents; 7. Punishing the Poor: Dilemmas of Justice and Difference; 8. Class-Based Remedies for the Poor; 9. Indigence and Sentencing in Republican Theory; 10. Homelessness in the Criminal Law; 11. Material Poverty-Moral Poverty; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773044-2
- 1-280-47234-0
- 0-19-535158-4
- 1-4237-6038-7
- OCLC:
- 476007484
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