Social Justice/Criminal Justice

Race and Class in the Administration of Criminal Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av William C. Heffernan

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This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial disparities at the heart of current law — disparities that, according to many, generate a system of criminal injustice.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-13
Mått148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt351 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor161
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031753961

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William Heffernan is Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA, where he has taught John Jay for more than 30 years. His work as an editor of Criminal Justice Ethics, a journal he co-founded 39 years ago, shaped his interdisciplinary interest in the topics covered in this book. He published Privacy and the American Constitution: New Rights through Interpretation of an Old Text (2016) with Palgrave Macmillan.

1 Introduction.- Part 1.Two Dimensions of Justice.- 2.Thinking about Justice (and Injustice).- 3.Criminal Justice.- 4.Social Justice.- Part 2.Social Justice/Criminal Justice.- 5.The Independent-Track Hypothesis 6.The Systematic Injustice Hypothesis.- 7.The System-Malfunction Hypothesis.- Part 3.The Interplay of Social Justice and Criminal Justice within the Legal System.- 8.Police Practices.- 9.The Criminal Trial.- 10.Capital and Non-Capital Punishment.- Part 4.The Interplay of Social Justice and Criminal Justice beyond the Legal System.- 11.Decriminalization.- 12.White-Collar Criminality.- 13.Safe Downsizing.- Conclusion.