Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (14 Jan 2008), 268 p. America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account – a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 299 p. In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the...
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1991, 317 p. This book seeks to demonstrate that people frequently resolve their disputes in cooperative fashion without paying any attention to the laws that apply to those disputes. This thesis has broad implications for how political debates should be conducted, how lawyers should practice their profession, and how law schools...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 455 p. — ISBN10: 1118793463. — ISBN13: 978-1118793466. Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system, providing important new insight to their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners. Draws on global feminist perspectives on female offending and...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. 216 p. Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major...
University of Huddersfield, 2012. — 668 p. Executive Summary Foreword: Sir Patrick Stewart Foreword: The Right Honourable, The Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court (UK) Companion Reports Project Context Country Context Theoretical Framework Project Objectives Methods Results Summary of Main Conclusions Translating Results into Policy and Practice...
Second Edition. — Paris: Children of Prisoners Europe, 2014. — 207 p. — ISBN: 2-9526725-04. This publication, featuring a range of initiatives, expertise and good practice, is designed for professionals, volunteers and decision-makers whose work impacts children with imprisoned parents, either directly (e.g., prison officers) or indirectly (e.g., judges and sentencers). Seeking...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2003. — 331 p. — ISBN: 978-94-017-4672-7. The Basic Concepts of Systems Theory Action Systems as Complex Systems Toward an Understanding of the Self-Organizing Nature of the World The Relationship of the Present Theory to Parsons’ Theory Has the World Changed Japan? How Can Japan Help to Change the World?
The Danish Institute for Human Rights, European Network for Children of Imprisoned Parents, University of Ulster and Bambinisenzasbarre, 2011. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-87-91836-45-9. Why punish the children? Children of imprisoned parents and their human rights. A European study on children of imprisoned parents – Methodology and participants. The number of children with imprisoned...
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