Dissection Guide & Atlas to the Rat
Dissection Guide & Atlas to the Rat
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Dissection Guide & Atlas to the Rat by David Smith
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780895825124 |
| ISBN 10 | 0895825120 |
| Title | Dissection Guide & Atlas to the Rat |
| Author | David Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Morton Publishing Company |
| Year published | 2006-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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