The Sense of Justice [[electronic resource] ] : Empathy in Law and Punishment / / Markus Dirk Dubber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480571303321
• Autore: Dubber Markus Dirk
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-8147-8515-8; 0-8147-2025-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Collana: Critical America
• Disciplina: 340/.11
• Soggetti: Justice, Administration of - United States - Psychological aspects; Justice; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-191) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Uses and abuses of the sense of justice -- The sense of justice in legal thought -- The sense of justice misconceived -- Rethinking the sense of justice -- The sense of justice in penal law.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Sense of Justice , distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the "sense of justice": an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? Often, the sense of justice is dismissed as little more than an emotional impulse that is out of place in a criminal justice system based on abstract legal and political norms equally applied to all. Dub