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Dimensions of Justice: Ethical Issues in the Administration of Criminal Law

William C. Heffernan

©2015  
ISBN: 9781449634056
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Criminal justice is centrally concerned with what people deserve—with the rights a defendant can properly claim when charged with a crime, with the punishment a judge should impose for wrongdoing, and with the scope of discretion officials may exercise when enforcing the law. Dimensions of Justice: Ethical Issues in the Administration of Criminal Law is the only textbook of its kind that addresses these questions of justice from an institutional perspective. Thought-provoking features, including Thought Experiments boxes that present imagined scenarios to illustrate the principles under discussion and Justice in Context boxes that consider the real-life applications of concepts, along with clearly presented learning objectives, create a strong foundation in key concepts, pertinent vocabulary, and critical-thinking and reasoning skills. Readers are introduced to moral reasoning and the underpinnings of philosophical approaches to justice, including readings from critical philosophers such as Aristotle, Augustine, Locke, Kant, and Rawls. Accessible but rigorous, Dimensions of Justice: Ethical Issues in the Administration of Criminal Law provides a unique and innovative approach that challenges students to develop a new analytical framework for thinking about the criminal justice system.
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    Chapter 1 Thinking about Justice
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    Chapter 2 The Possibility of a Justice Convention
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    Chapter 3 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating
    about the Proper Scope of Public Protection
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    Chapter 4 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating
    about the Appropriate Response to Wrongdoing
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    Chapter 5 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating
    about Criminal Procedure
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    Chapter 6 The Justice Convention Concluded: Deliberating
    about Equality
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    Chapter 7 From Natural Law to Human Rights
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    Chapter 8 Nuremberg and Beyond: The Creation of a
    System of International Criminal Justice
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    Chapter 9 Transitional Justice: New Democracies Grapple
    with Their Past
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    Chapter 10 The Right to be Let Alone: ­Determining
    the Scope of ­Personal Freedom
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    Chapter 11 Justice in a Lifeboat: Thinking about Life–Life
    Tradeoffs
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    Chapter 12 Restorative Justice: A Challenge to the
    Current System of Criminal Justice
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    Chapter 13 Sentencing Offenders in Noncapital Cases
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    Chapter 14 Sentencing Offenders in Capital Cases: The
    Death Penalty
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    Chapter 15 Justice and Mercy
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    Chapter 16 Glossary
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