Ideology And Criminal Law

Author : A.W. Norrie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400906990

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Law, Ideology and Punishment by A.W. Norrie Pdf

This book is about 'Kantianism' in both a narrow and a broad sense. In the former, it is about the tracing of the development of the retributive philosophy of punishment into and beyond its classical phase in the work of a number of philosophers, one of the most prominent of whom is Kant. In the latter, it is an exploration of the many instantiations of the 'Kantian' ideas of individual guilt, responsibility and justice within the substantive criminal law . On their face, such discussions may owe more or less explicitly to Kant, but, in their basic intellectual structure, they share a recognisably common commitment to certain ideas emerging from the liberal Enlightenment and embodied within a theory of criminal justice and punishment which is in this broader sense 'Kantian'. The work has its roots in the emergence in the 1970s and early 1980s in the United States and Britain of the 'justice model' of penal reform, a development that was as interesting in terms of the sociology of philosophical knowledge as it was in its own right. Only a few years earlier, I had been taught in undergraduate criminology (which appeared at the time to be the only discipline to have anything interesting to say about crime and punishment) that 'classical criminology' (that is, Beccaria and the other Enlightenment reformers, who had been colonised as a 'school' within criminology) had died a major death in the 19th century, from which there was no hope of resuscitation.

Author : Leon Radzinowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCAL:B3962202

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Ideology and Crime by Leon Radzinowicz Pdf

Author : Anthony Bottoms,Michael Tonry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135994266

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Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice by Anthony Bottoms,Michael Tonry Pdf

In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001. This book is concerned with the key themes of the history of criminal justice, the history and development of criminological thought, and criminal justice policy. Each of the contributed chapters makes an original and important contribution to the development of the discipline of criminology. This book is valuable reading for anybody interested in the past and present of the discipline of criminology, explored through essays on morality, prisons, policing, criminal justice and penal policy.

Author : Jeffrey Reiman,Paul Leighton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317342953

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Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, The (Subscription) by Jeffrey Reiman,Paul Leighton Pdf

Illustrates the issue of economic inequality within the American justice system. The best-selling text, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison contends that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish. The authors argue that even before the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing, the system is biased against the poor in what it chooses to treat as crime. The authors show that numerous acts of the well-off--such as their refusal to make workplaces safe, refusal to curtail deadly pollution, promotion of unnecessary surgery, and prescriptions for unnecessary drugs--cause as much harm as the acts of the poor that are treated as crimes. However, the dangerous acts of the well-off are almost never treated as crimes, and when they are, they are almost never treated as severely as the crimes of the poor. Not only does the criminal justice system fail to protect against the harmful acts of well-off people, it also fails to remedy the causes of crime, such as poverty. This results in a large population of poor criminals in our prisons and in our media. The authors contend that the idea of crime as a work of the poor serves the interests of the rich and powerful while conveying a misleading notion that the real threat to Americans comes from the bottom of society rather than the top. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Examine the criminal justice system through the lens of the poor. Understand that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates one’s own sense of fairness. Morally evaluate the criminal justice system’s failures. Identify the type of legislature that is biased against the poor.

Author : Stephen Skinner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509910830

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Ideology and Criminal Law by Stephen Skinner Pdf

With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern. If we are to understand the effects of extreme ideologies on the state's legal dimensions and powers – especially the power to punish and to determine the boundaries of permissible conduct through criminal law – it is essential to consider the lessons of history. This timely collection explores how political ideas and beliefs influenced the nature, content and application of criminal law and justice under Fascism, National Socialism, and other authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together expert legal historians from four continents, the collection's 16 chapters examine aspects of criminal law and related jurisprudential and criminological questions in the context of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied Norway, apartheid South Africa, Francoist Spain, and the authoritarian regimes of Brazil, Romania and Japan. Based on original archival, doctrinal and theoretical research, the collection offers new critical perspectives on issues of systemic identity, self-perception and the foundational role of criminal law; processes of state repression and the activities of criminal courts and lawyers; and ideological aspects of, and tensions in, substantive criminal law.

Author : Alan William Norrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0406932468

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Crime, Reason and History by Alan William Norrie Pdf

Crime, Reason and History provides an alternative approach to the study of the general principles of criminal law. It emphasises, in contrast to orthodox texts, the tensions and contradictions at the law's heart. The author outlines the themes of responsibility, rationality and justice which govern the orthodox criminal law text. He traces these to the early nineteenth century reform of the criminal law and notes conflicts within reform ideologies relating to the idea of the 'responsible individual'. He then takes the reader through the bulk of the criminal law's 'general part' showing how conflicts from reform ideology emerge within criminal law. An historical and political logic underlies its illogicalities, giving it its 'shape'. The author presents a sceptical critique of the liberal positivist tradition in criminal law scholarship, and a social analysis of both its practical necessity and intellectual impossibility. He shows how the ideology of individual legal justice was imposed as a means of excluding alternative political voices, while recognising its importance for the survival of the liberal polity.

Author : Maria W. Los
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349088553

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Communist Ideology, Law and Crime by Maria W. Los Pdf

Author : R. W. Makepeace
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 0389200999

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Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law by R. W. Makepeace Pdf

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Author : A. E. Bottoms,Michael H. Tonry
Publisher : Willan Pub
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1903240905

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Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice by A. E. Bottoms,Michael H. Tonry Pdf

In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001. This book is concerned with the key themes of the history of criminal justice, the history and development of criminological thought, and criminal justice policy. Each of the contributed chapters makes an original and important contribution to the development of the discipline of criminology. This book is valuable reading for anybody interested in the past and present of the discipline of criminology, explored through essays on morality, prisons, policing, criminal justice and penal policy.

Author : Malcolm Jorgensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108481434

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American Foreign Policy Ideology and the International Rule of Law by Malcolm Jorgensen Pdf

Demonstrates American legal policymakers hold competing conceptions of the 'international rule of law' structured by foreign policy ideologies.

Author : Colin Sumner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:49015001292326

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Censure, Politics and Criminal Justice by Colin Sumner Pdf

Criminal justice is examined here as a powerful but contested system of state sanctification and enforcement of dominant social censures. The contributors explore the political and ideological composition of criminal justice and its associated public imagery. They present empirical investigations on the political bias of the magistracy, South African political trials, television images of crime and law enforcement, and press censure of dissident minorities and of the suffragette movement. They draw on recent theoretical developments within Marxist criminology and the sociology of law to put forward a modern socialist approach to criminology. They share a commitment to sociological research which is informed by socialist theory and politics but based on empirical enquiry or fieldwork.

Author : Leon Radzinowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Crime
ISBN : LCCN:66004033

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Ideology and Crime by Leon Radzinowicz Pdf

Author : Dr Anthony Amatrudo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473903586

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Criminology and Political Theory by Dr Anthony Amatrudo Pdf

A lucid, sophisticated and timely vindication of the importance of Marxist, feminist and other radical perspectives on the state and political economy to the analysis of crime, control and justice. It offers a valuable guide to issues of political philosophy for students and teachers of criminology, critically deconstructing the taken-for-granted categories of law and criminal justice. - Professor Robert Reiner, London School of Economics, UK This clear and concise book sets out the relationship between political theory and criminology. It critically analyzes key theories and debates within criminology and addresses the major political ideas that lie beneath them. Organized around key criminological concepts and issues, the book covers: " power and ideology " the nature of the state " social control and policing " punishment " economics and criminal activity " morality. The book has been carefully developed to support practical teaching and learning and contains chapter summaries, further reading and a comprehensive glossary, which combine to provide a full understanding of the themes.

Author : Stephen Skinner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782255468

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Fascism and Criminal Law by Stephen Skinner Pdf

Fascism was one of the twentieth century's principal political forces, and one of the most violent and problematic. Brutal, repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and beyond, sought to create revolutionary new orders that crushed their opponents. A central component of such regimes' exertion of control was criminal law, a focal point and key instrument of State punitive and repressive power. This collection brings together a range of original essays by international experts in the field to explore questions of criminal law under Italian Fascism and other similar regimes, including Franco's Spain, Vargas's Brazil and interwar Romania and Japan. Addressing issues of substantive criminal law, criminology and ideology, the form and function of criminal justice institutions, and the role and perception of criminal law in processes of transition, the collection casts new light on fascism's criminal legal history and related questions of theoretical interpretation and historiography. At the heart of the collection is the problematic issue of continuity and similarity among fascist systems and preceding, contemporaneous and subsequent legal orders, an issue that goes to the heart of fascist regimes' historical identity and the complex relationship between them and the legal orders constructed in their aftermath. The collection thus makes an innovative contribution both to the comparative understanding of fascism, and to critical engagement with the foundations and modalities of criminal law across systems.

Author : Jeffrey H. Reiman,Paul Leighton
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 020568842X

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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey H. Reiman,Paul Leighton Pdf

This best-selling text examines the premise that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish, from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing. Also, this text discusses how this bias is accompanied with a general refusal to remedy the causes of crime—poverty, lack of education, and discrimination. The author argues that actions of well-off people, such as their refusal to make workplaces safe, refusal to curtail deadly pollution, promotion of unnecessary surgery, and prescriptions for unnecessary drugs, cause occupational and environmental hazards to innocent members of the public and produce just as much death, destruction, and financial loss as so-called crimes of the poor. However, these acts of the well-off are rarely treated as crimes, and when they are, they are never treated as severely as crimes of the poor. NEW:This text now has a companion 25 article reader:The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison: A Reader(ISBN: 0-205-68842-X). Visit this book's website for a full table of contents.