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- Asks: is criminal justice a genuine component of justice?
- Offers an accessible, integrated approach to exploring issues in criminal justice theory
- Provides a framework for assessing the state’s performance in investigating charges of wrongdoing and in imposing punishment
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Retaliation to Criminal Justice
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Taming the Power of the State
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA
William C. Heffernan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rights and Wrongs
Book Subtitle: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice
Authors: William C. Heffernan
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12782-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12781-7Published: 26 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12784-8Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12782-4Published: 12 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 149
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminological Theory, Critical Criminology, Criminal Justice, Prison and Punishment, Human Rights and Crime