Redemptive imagination: the fallacy of judging across borders of ignorance

Autor:	Jacob L. Davis
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Fallacy Retributive justice Restorative justice media_common.quotation_subject Redress Shame Ignorance Sociology Criminology Law Dehumanization media_common Criminal justice
Zdroj:	Contemporary Justice Review. 17:455-464
ISSN:	1477-2248 1028-2580
Popis:	This essay draws from personal experience and asserts that the criminal justice system fails to meet the needs of communities because the response to crime is dictated by forces outside those communities and across boundaries of failed imagination and flawed knowledge. Communities in our land can no longer afford to allow the wounds created by crime to go unhealed, its victims to go without redress and without a voice, and its young people to be vacuumed into a brutal system of dehumanization that leaves them unable to return as productive members of the human family from which they were removed. Reconciliation instead of a self-destructive obsession with retribution is a vital interest for all communities in America. Rather than insisting that crime must not go unpunished, we must insist that the hurt caused by crime must not go unhealed. Only the path of reconciliation can give us any hope if we want to address the problems that create crime in the first place: poverty, ignorance, shame, fear, and the v...
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