William C Heffernan

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Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice (2019)Hardcover - 2019, 26 April 2019

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Part of Series
Critical Criminological Perspectives
Print Length
149 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
26 Apr 2019
ISBN-10
3030127818
ISBN-13
9783030127817

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
William C Heffernan
Book Edition:
2019
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
26 April 2019
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.12 cm
ISBN-10:
3030127818
ISBN-13:
9783030127817
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
149
Weight:
349.27 gm

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