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William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig
The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate number. This collection of original, interactive essays, written from a variety of ideological perspectives, explores some of the more troubling questions
Autor:
William C. Heffernan
Publikováno v:
Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
This chapter examines the criminal justice model in both the pure form in which it can be notionally imagined and the modified form in which it has come to be practiced. Under the pure criminal justice model, the state alone is concerned with the res
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Autor:
William C. Heffernan
Publikováno v:
Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
Justice is the master concept for thinking about the fair terms of communal life. These terms are understandable in light of the rights and obligations free and equal people would acknowledge as essential to sustained social interaction. The most imp
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12782-4_1
Autor:
William C. Heffernan
Publikováno v:
Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12782-4_5
Autor:
William C. Heffernan
Publikováno v:
Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. Judicial interpretation of this vague language reins in state power in many respects. It is far from completely satisfactory, however. The Court has held capital punishmen
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12782-4_7
Autor:
William C. Heffernan
Publikováno v:
Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
To what extent has practice conformed to the principles outlined in Chapters 1 and 2? This chapter and the following one establish that history corresponds roughly with theory. They do so by contrasting two models of grievance-redress: a retaliation
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Autor:
William C. Heffernan
Publikováno v:
Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
Even if the penal reforms proposed in the previous chapter were adopted, the question would remain whether they are imposed in an unbiased way. This question takes on special urgency given the fact that criminal defendants are disproportionately Afri
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Autor:
William C. Heffernan
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Rights and Wrongs ISBN: 9783030127817
The term criminal justice refers to state-imposed punishment for violation of its laws. It has a distant connection to lex talionis, the eye for eye framework of grievance-redress endorsed in the Torah. Lex talionis is a code of retaliation, however.
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Autor:
William C. Heffernan
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