From Social Justice to Criminal Justice - Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law

Klappentext 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 and ethical dilemmas inherent in this situation. The contributors! including well-known legal and political philosophers Philip Pettit! George Fletcher! and Jeremy Waldron! examine issues such as heightened vulnerability! indigent representation! and rotten social background defenses. Zusammenfassung This volume of essays by philosophers of law and political philosophers looks at the ethical difficulties inherent in this situation from a variety of perspectives.

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• Authors: William C. Kleinig Heffernan
• Assisted by: William C. Heffernan (Editor), Heffernan William C. (Editor), John Kleinig (Editor), John (both Associate Professors of Law Kleinig (Editor), Kleinig John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2000
• EAN: 9780195129854
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512985-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Practical and Professional Ethics; Oxford Early Music (Hardcover); Practical and Professional Ethics; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Criminal law & procedure, Poverty & unemployment, Poverty and precarity, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law