{"product_id":"rights-and-wrongs-rethinking-the-foundations-of-criminal-justice-paperback","title":"Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam C. Heffernan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed only for wrongdoing, the book proposes a criterion for repudiating the legal paternalism that informs drug-possession laws. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e outlines steps for taming the state's power to punish offenders; in particular, it draws on restorative justice research to outline possibilities for a penology that emphasizes offenders' humanity. Through its examination of equality issues, the book integrates recent work on the social justice\/criminal justice connection into the scholarly literature on punishment, and so will particularly appeal to those interested in criminal justice theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing--and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed only for wrongdoing, the book proposes a criterion for repudiating the legal paternalism that informs drug-possession laws. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e outlines steps for taming the state's power to punish offenders; in particular, it draws on restorative justice research to outline possibilities for a penology that emphasizes offenders' humanity. Through its examination of equality issues, the book integrates recent work on the social justice\/criminal justice connection into the scholarly literature on punishment, and so will particularly appeal to those interested in criminal justice theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Heffernan is Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He is an editor of \u003ci\u003eCriminal Justice Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, a publication of John Jay's Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics. His books include \u003ci\u003ePrivacy And The American Constitution: New Rights Through Interpretation Of An Old Text\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and his articles on constitutional privacy protection have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Georgetown Law Journal, Wisconsin Law Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Notre Dame Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 149\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777499365664,"sku":"9783030127848","price":129.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7e3d21677d2c2e9564e3e712aa3e032c.webp?v=1780499796","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rights-and-wrongs-rethinking-the-foundations-of-criminal-justice-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}