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Author : Larry Alexander,Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107159945
Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.
Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416552741
Originally published: 2011. With new addendum.
Author : John S. Milloy
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554155
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948) For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the “circle of civilization,” the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. In the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. Despite numerous critical commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without improving conditions for its thousands of wards. A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children.
Author : Margaret E. Beare
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802081908
Contributors offer a wide range of challenges to commonly-held views on transnational crime and approaches to fighting it, suggesting that current international policies follow an American model that exaggerates its threat out of proportion.
Author : Howard Zehr
Publisher : Good Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1561483338
Are victims of crime destined to have the rest of their lives shaped by the crimes they've experienced? ("What happened to the road map for living the rest of my life?" asks a woman whose mother was murdered.) Will victims of crime always be bystanders in the justice system? ("We're having a problem forgiving the judge and the system," says the father of a young man killed in prison.) Is it possible for anyone to transcend such a comprehensively destructive, identity altering occurrence? ("I thought, I'm going to run until I'm not angry anymore," expresses a woman who was assaulted.) Howard Zehr presents the portraits and the courageous stories of 39 victims of violent crime in Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims. Many of these people were twice-wounded: once at the hands of an assailant; the second time by the courts, where there is no legal provision for a victim's participation. "My hope," says Zehr, "is that this book might hand down a rope to others who have experienced such tragedies and traumas, and that it might allow all who read it to live on the healing edge."
Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0030350867
Author : Baldwin, Lucy,Masson, Isla,Natalie Booth
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447358688
Drawing on research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this collection sheds new light on the experiences of women and families who encounter the UK criminal justice system. Contributions demonstrate how these groups are often ignored, oppressed and victimised, and offer insights and practical recommendations for change.
Author : R A Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191058585
We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained. The theory is based on an account of criminal law as a distinctive legal practice that functions to declare and define a set of public wrongs, and to call to formal public account those who commit such wrongs; an account of the role that such practice can play in a democratic republic of free and equal citizens; and an account of the central features of such a political community, and of the way in which it constitutes its public realm-its civil order. Criminal law plays an important, but limited, role in such a political community in protecting, but also partly constituting, its civil order. On the basis of this account, we can see how such a political community will decide what kinds of conduct should be criminalized - not by applying one or more of the substantive master principles that theorists have offered, but by considering which kinds of conduct fall within its public realm (as distinct from the private realms that are not the polity's business), and which kinds of wrong within that realm require this distinctive kind of response (rather than one of the other kinds of available response). The outcome of such a deliberative process will probably be a more limited, and a more rational and principled, criminal law.
Author : Larry Alexander,Kimberly Kessler Ferzan,Stephen J. Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521518772
This book presents a comprehensive theory of a culpability-based criminal law.
Author : Gordon Tait
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351156783
Originally published in 2004. The essays in this engaging book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to the prison system, 'boot camps', detention centres and specific penal policies such as the 'short, sharp shock', parental penalty and 'three strikes and you're out'. Also examined are policing practices such as 'zero tolerance', 'saturation policing' and punitive laws in the areas of drug use, sex offences and prostitution. It is demonstrated that in each of these cases the objectives of government resulted in the creation of new and unforeseen problems requiring further reform of the criminal justice system. This is a familiar tale characteristic of the modernist impulses of contemporary government based on the notion that crime can be identified, managed and controlled through the application and administration of institutionalised polices and practices. The present culture of 'high crime' - despite a top-heavy apparatus of crime control - appears to indicate the very opposite.
Author : Don Crewe,Ronnie Lippens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317686378
Since its inception, criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-evident, this book pursues the provocative possibility that criminology does not know what the object of its study is; it merely knows what it is called. Aiming to foster dissent among those who claim to know what criminology is about – and those who don’t – writers from different schools of thought come together in this collection to answer the question "what is criminology about?" Building on a resurgence of interest in the nature of the object of criminology, their responses aim to deepen, and to expand, the current debate. This book will, then, be of considerable interest to contemporary proponents and students of criminology and law.
Author : Thomas J. Miceli
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 3030316971
This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view. It provides an economic analysis of the institutional structure and function of the criminal justice system, how its policies are formulated, and how they affect behavior. Yet it goes beyond an examination of specific policies to address the broad question of how law influences behavior. For example, it examines how concepts such as the possibility of redemption affect the decisions of repeat offenders, and whether individual responsibility is (or should be) a pre-requisite for punishment. Finally, the book argues that, in addition to the threat of criminal sanctions, law inculcates principles of acceptable behavior among citizens by asserting that certain acts are “against the law.” This “expressive function” of law can influence behavior to the extent that at least some people in society are receptive to such a message. For these people, the moral content of law has more than mere symbolic value, and consequently, it can expand the scope of traditional law enforcement while lowering its cost. Another goal of the book is therefore to use economic theory to assess this dualistic function of law by specifically recognizing how its policies can both internalize an ethic of obedience to the law among some people irrespective of its consequences, while simultaneously threatening to punish those who only respond to external incentives.
Author : Frederic G. Reamer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : LAW
ISBN : 0231177321
An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820369747
Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author’s own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months of witnessing the fates of less-fortunate inmates. That experience informs every page of the book, which was first published in England in 1956, and followed in 1957 by this American edition. As Koestler ranges across the history of capital punishment in Britain (with a focus on hanging), he looks at notable cases and rulings, and portrays politicians, judges, lawyers, scholars, clergymen, doctors, police, jailers, prisoners, and others involved in the long debate over the justness and effectiveness of the death penalty. In Britain, Reflections on Hanging was part of a concerted, ultimately successful effort to abolish the death penalty. At that time, in the forty-eight United States, capital punishment was sanctioned in forty-two of them, with hanging still practiced in five. This edition includes a preface and afterword written especially for the 1957 American edition. The preface makes the book relevant to readers in the U.S.; the afterword overviews the modern-day history of abolitionist legislation in the British Parliament. Reflections on Hanging is relentless, biting, and unsparing in its details of botched and unjust executions. It is a classic work of advocacy for some of society’s most defenseless members, a critique of capital punishment that is still widely cited, and an enduring work that presaged such contemporary problems as the sensationalism of crime, the wrongful condemnation of the innocent and mentally ill, the callousness of penal systems, and the use of fear to control a citizenry.
Author : Michael S. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Community policing
ISBN : PURD:32754070337575