Limited Responsibilities: Social Movements and Criminal Justice

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Overview

``Responsibility'' and the way in which it is defined, assumed and attributed in society is currently at the center of public debate both nationally and internationally. As the focus of political discussion, it also poses philosophical and juridicial questions and is the underlying motive of many contemporary conflicts. Limited Responsibilities analyzes the notions of responsibility in relation to social and political institutions and also individuals. Focusing particularly on the criminal justice system, it demostrates how the breaking down of boundaries between institutions results in increased empowerment of the individual.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415086530
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 12/13/1994
  • Series: Sociology of Law and Crime Series
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the English edition
Preface to the Italian edition
Series editors' preface
Acknowlegements
1 Proccsses and products of social control. The use and abuse of a concept 10
2 Studying the 'criminal question'. The object of criminology and the responsibility of the criminologist 28
3 Radical enquiries, unfounded policies 47
4 Rather riders than horses? The use of the symbolic potential of criminal justice by actors in conflict 69
5 The question of juvenile deviance 93
6 Criminal responsibility and mental illness. The criminal justice system and the new psychiatry 113
7 From oppression to victimisation. The debate on the Merlin law 140
8 From victimisation to autonomy. Women, feminism and the law on rape 155
9 A politics of sovereignty 186
Notes 193
Bibliography 212
Name index 225
Subject index 228
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