Record Nr.

UNINA9910461007403321

Titolo

Merciful judgments and contemporary society : legal problems, legal possibilities / / edited by Austin Sarat [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN


1-139-17983-7
1-107-22794-1
1-283-38408-6
9786613384089
1-139-18958-1
1-139-18828-3
1-139-19088-1
1-139-18366-4
1-139-18598-5
1-139-03065-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

340/.112

Soggetti

Criminal justice, Administration of - Moral and ethical aspects

Law and ethics

Transitional justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

When can or should legal judgment be merciful? / Austin Sarat -- The place of mercy in legal discourse / Robert A. Ferguson -- Commentary on Chapter 1 : response to "The place of mercy in legal discourse" / Jamie Leonard -- Mercy, crime control, and moral credibility / Paul H. Robinson -- Commentary on Chapter 2 : thoughts on mercy and self-examination / William Brewbaker -- Defending a role for mercy in a criminal justice system / James Staihar and Stephen Macedo -- Commentary on Chapter 3 : commentary on "Defending a role for mercy in a criminal justice system" / Pamela Pierson -- Actions of mercy / Alice Ristroph -- Commentary on Chapter 4 : Reflections on "Actions of mercy" / Steven H. Hobbs -- A Feminist view of mercy,

judgment, and the "Exception" in the context of transitional justice / Susan H. Williams -- Commentary on Chapter 5 : the interpretative process : feminist reconstructions / Timothy Hoff.

Sommario/riassunto

Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about the moral worth and importance of mercy, this book focuses on mercy as a part of, and problem for, law. This book is a product of the University of Alabama School of Law symposia series on 'Law, Knowledge and Imagination'. It explores the ways law is known and imagined in a diverse array of disciplines, including political science, history, cultural studies, philosophy and science. In addition, books produced through the Alabama symposia explore various conjunctions of law, knowledge and imagination as they play out in debates about theory and policy and speak to venerable questions as well as contemporary issues.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0076178

Titolo

Controllare i giudici?: (cosa, chi, come, perchè?) : atti del Convegno di studi, Lecce, febbraio 2008 / a cura di Giuseppe Campanelli