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Rights and Wrongs : Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice / by William C. Heffernan.
Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2019 English International Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heffernan, William C., Author.
- Series:
- Critical Criminological Perspectives, 2731-0612
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Critical criminology.
- Law and the social sciences.
- Corrections.
- Punishment.
- Human rights.
- Criminology Theory.
- Critical Criminology.
- Socio-Legal Studies.
- Prison and Punishment.
- Human Rights.
- Local Subjects:
- Criminology Theory.
- Critical Criminology.
- Socio-Legal Studies.
- Prison and Punishment.
- Human Rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2019.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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. .
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Thinking about Justice
- 3. 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.
- ISBN:
- 9783030127824
- 3030127826
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