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Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice

Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice

Hardcover

Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives

CriminologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030127818
ISBN13: 9783030127817
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 26 2019
Pages: 149
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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