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Autore: |
Dingwall Gavin
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Titolo: |
Blamestorming, blamemongers and scapegoats : allocating blame in the criminal justice process / / Gavin Dingwall and Tim Hillier
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Pubblicazione: | 2008 |
Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Policy Press, , 2015 | |
©2015 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.15 |
364.1523 | |
Soggetto topico: | Criminal liability |
Blame | |
Criminal justice, Administration of | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Social Science |
Criminology | |
Persona (resp. second.): | HillierTim |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | BLAMESTORMING, BLAMEMONGERS AND SCAPEGOATS; Contents; About the authors ; Preface; 1. Introduction and the centrality of blame; The Case of Mrs Inglis; The Case of Baby P; Blamestorming; Blamemongers; Scapegoats; Blame; Preliminary reflections; 2. Blame in the criminal justice process; Pre-trial diversion: removing those of limited culpability; Pre-trial diversion: fixed penalties for particular categories of offence; Pre-trial diversion: the routine diversion of some types of criminal conduct to specialist state agencies; Mode of trial: deciding which court will hear a case |
Justifying sentence: the normative backgroundJustifying sentence: the legal background; Conclusions: blame and procedural decision-making; 3. Blame and the blameless; The minimum age of criminal responsibility; Mental capacity; Justifications, excuses and circumstances precluding wrongfulness; Blame and luck; 4. Blameless crime; Motive: criminalising the well-intentioned; Recklessness: criminalising the risk-taker; Negligence and gross negligence: criminalising the incompetent; Strict liability: criminalising the blameless; Conclusion; 5. Blame amplification ; Offence seriousness | |
Shocking and extraordinary crimes6. Putting oneself in harm's way; Blame, gang membership and paramilitary involvement; Purchasing drugs, 'associating with criminals' and expanding the 'blameworthy'; Drug misuse and crime; Blame, intoxication and alcohol-related offending; Conclusion: voluntarily heightening the risk of offending; 7. Blame, punitiveness and criminalisation; The growth of blame culture and the need for scapegoats; From civil liability to criminal liability; From human rights to the International Criminal Court; 8. Blamestorming and blamemongers; Defining blame | |
Legal determinations about blameBlame and procedural decision-making; Blame, luck and diminished responsibility; Precursory conduct and the attribution of blame; Quantifying blame; Swiss cheese; The blamemongers: from process to value; Glossary; References; Case list; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalisation as a social and political process. It will also be of wider interest to anyone wishing to discover the role of blame in modern society. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Blamestorming, blamemongers and scapegoats ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4473-2116-2 |
1-4473-0499-3 | |
1-4473-1161-2 | |
1-4473-0501-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910433257303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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