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Social Justice/Criminal Justice

Social Justice/Criminal Justice

Race and Class in the Administration of Criminal Law

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This book builds on Heffernan's last book&nbsp;<i>Rights and Wrongs:&nbsp;</i><i>Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice</i>&nbsp;by examining the class and racial disparities at the heart of current law — disparities that, according to many, generate a system of criminal&nbsp;<i>in</i>justice.&nbsp;It argues that these disparities run throughout the legal system; they’re present in policing, corrections, and sentencing. It&nbsp;discusses&nbsp;the relationship between&nbsp;the two kinds of justice&nbsp;—&nbsp;social justice and criminal justice&nbsp;and how to ensure&nbsp;fairness in state-imposed punishment.&nbsp;It&nbsp;theorises the extent to which criminal law must address considerations of social justice to ensure&nbsp;a fair system. It&nbsp;proposes a framework for analyzing disparities, provides an overview of contemporary research concerning them, and offers reform proposals for addressing them. Written in an accessible way, it&nbsp;introduces readers to&nbsp;philosophical theory and doctrines in constitutional law and thus it speaks to a wide&nbsp;audience concerned about racial and class disparities in the criminal justice system.&nbsp;It responds to a half-century’s worth of public concern about the legitimacy of the state’s exercise of its penal power while explaining the pertinence of social justice principles to the criminal justice system.&nbsp;

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Dezember 2024, 152 Seiten, Englisch
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
9783031753978

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