Rights and Wrongs Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice /

• Main Author: Heffernan, William C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives
• Subjects: Criminology.; Critical criminology.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Corrections.; Punishment.; Human rights.; Criminological Theory.; Critical Criminology.; Criminal Justice.; Prison and Punishment.; Human Rights and Crime .

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Thinking about Justice
• 3. Thinking about Criminal Justice.-4. Redressing Grievances: The Retaliation Model
• 5. Redressing Grievances: The Criminal Justice Model. 6. Decriminalization
• 7. Policing the Police
• 8. State-Imposed Punishment
• 9. Equality: Racial and Class Disparities in the Context of State-Imposed Punishment
• 10. Afterword.