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

by William C. Heffernan

Overview

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 Issue s 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 Issue s 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449634056
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	08/07/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

William Heffernan has taught criminal justice at John Jay College for more than thirty years.He was one of the founding editors of Criminal Justice Ethics, a journal published by John Jay’s Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics.His publications have appeared in numerous law reviews, among them Georgetown Law Journal, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Wisconsin Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Buffalo Law Review.He has edited Police Ethics: Hard Choices in Law Enforcement and From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of the Criminal Law.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Thinking About Justice
Chapter 2 The Possibility of a Justice Convention
Chapter 3 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating about the Proper Scope of Public Protection
Chapter 4 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating about the Appropriate Response to Wrongdoing
Chapter 5 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating about Criminal Procedure
Chapter 6 The Justice Convention Continued: Deliberating about Equality
Chapter 7 From Natural Law to Human Rights
Chapter 8 Nuremberg and Beyond: The Creation of a System of International Criminal Justice
Chapter 9 Transitional Justice: New Democracies Grapple with their Past
Chapter 10 The Right to Be Left Alone: Determining the Scope of Personal Freedom
Chapter 11 Justice in a Lifeboat: Thinking about Life-Life Tradeoffs
Chapter 12 Restorative Justice: A Challenge to the Current System of Criminal Justice
Chapter 13 Sentencing Offenders in Non-Capital Case s
Chapter 14 Sentencing Offenders in Capital Case s: The Death Penalty
Chapter 15 Justice and Mercy