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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337826503321

Autore

Heffernan William C

Titolo

Rights and Wrongs : Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice / / by William C. Heffernan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030127824

3030127826

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Collana

Critical Criminological Perspectives, , 2731-0612

Disciplina

364.973

345.001

Soggetti

Criminology

Critical criminology

Law and the social sciences

Corrections

Punishment

Human rights

Criminology Theory

Critical Criminology

Socio-Legal Studies

Prison and Punishment

Human Rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .