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UNINA9910808699803321 |
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Autore |
Kleinig John <1942-> |
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Titolo |
Ethics and criminal justice : an introduction / / John Kleinig [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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1-107-17841-X |
1-282-39007-4 |
0-511-64550-3 |
9786612390074 |
0-511-80615-9 |
0-511-64959-2 |
0-511-38412-2 |
0-511-57316-2 |
0-511-38595-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criminal justice, Administration of - Moral and ethical aspects |
Criminal law - Moral and ethical aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. I. Criminalization -- 1. Civil society : its institutions and major players -- 2. Crime and the limits of criminalization -- 3. Constraints on governmental agents -- pt. II. Policing -- 4. Tensions within the police role -- 5. The burdens of discretion -- 6. Coercion and deception -- pt. III. Courts -- 7. Prosecutors : seeking justice through truth? -- 8. Defense lawyers : zealous advocacy? -- 9. The impartial judge? -- 10. Juries : the lamp of liberty? -- pt. IV. Corrections -- 11. Punishment and its alternatives -- 12. Imprisonment and its alternatives -- 13. The role of correctional officers -- 14. Reentry and collateral consequences -- Selected further reading -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This textbook looks at the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system - legislature, law enforcement, courts, and |
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corrections - and those who work within that system, especially police officers, prosecutors, defence lawyers, judges, juries, and prison officers. John Kleinig sets the issues in the context of a liberal democratic society and its ethical and legislative underpinnings, and illustrates them with a wide and international range of real-life case studies. Topics covered include discretion, capital punishment, terrorism, restorative justice, and re-entry. Kleinig's discussion is both philosophically acute and grounded in institutional realities, and will enable students to engage productively with the ethical questions which they encounter both now and in the future - whether as criminal justice professionals or as reflective citizens. |
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