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The Crimes of Others
Criminal Records, Publicity, and Crimes of Abuse
Inbunden, 2026
1384 kr
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Do we have a right to know about each other's criminal past? And if so, just how publicly accessible should criminal records be? Does publicity serve an important purpose in fulfilling the public's right to know about who amongst their fellow citizens is dangerous or has violated collective moral …
Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration
Av Albert Dzur, Ian Loader m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1194 kr
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The United States leads the world in incarceration, and the United Kingdom is persistently one of the European countries with the highest per capita rates of imprisonment. Yet despite its increasing visibility as a social issue, mass incarceration - and its inconsistency with core democratic ideals …
Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State
Inbunden, 2018
1827 kr
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What is the criminal law for? One influential answer is that the criminal law vindicates pre-political rights and condemns wrongdoing. On this account, the criminal law has an intrinsic subject matter-certain types of moral wrongdoing-and it provides a distinctive response to that wrongdoing, …
Hate, Politics, Law
Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate
Av Thomas Brudholm, Birgitte Schepelern Johansen
Inbunden, 2018
1334 kr
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References to hate have become ubiquitous in the modern response to group defamation and violence in liberal democracies. Whether expressed in speech, acted out in criminal conduct, or seen as the fuel of terror and extremism, hate is persistently considered a vice, an evil, and a threat to the …
Taming the Presumption of Innocence
Inbunden, 2016
2365 kr
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The notion that an individual accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty is one of the cornerstones of the American criminal justice system. However, the presumption of innocence creates a number of practical and theoretical issues, particularly regarding pre-trial and post-trial …
Sentencing for Multiple Crimes
Av Jan de Keijser, Julian V. Roberts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1581 kr
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Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime. However, in reality almost half of offenders stand to be sentenced for more than one crime.The high proportion of multiple crime offenders poses a number of practical and theoretical challenges for the criminal …
Neurointerventions, Crime, and Punishment
Ethical Considerations
Inbunden, 2020
1785 kr
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Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain. The aspiration of such interventions is to affect conative, …
Punishment and Citizenship
A Theory of Criminal Disenfranchisement
Inbunden, 2019
1295 kr
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Criminal disenfranchisement-the practice of restricting electoral rights following criminal conviction-is the only surviving electoral restriction of adult, mentally competent citizens in contemporary democracies. Despite the strong devotion to the principle of universal suffrage, criminal …
Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds
Inbunden, 2020
1110 kr
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When someone commits a crime, what are the limits on a state's authority to define them as worthy of blame, and thus liable to punishment? This book answers that question, building on two ideas familiar to criminal lawyers: actus reus and mens rea, usually translated as "guilty act" and "guilty …
Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence
Av Jesper Ryberg, Julian V. Roberts
Inbunden, 2022
1469 kr
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The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencingIs it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the determination of sentences on those who have broken the law? If so, how should …
Criminalizing Disobedience
Av Youngjae Lee
Inbunden, 2026
1161 kr
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Many laws penalize conduct not because it is inherently wrongful but because the government has prohibited it. Criminalizing Disobedience examines this important yet underexplored aspect of modern criminal law. Such "disobedience offenses" include: administration of justice crimes (contempt, …
Punishment for the Greater Good
Inbunden, 2024
990 kr
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Over ten million people are incarcerated throughout the world, even though punishment theorists have struggled for centuries to morally justify the practice. Theorists usually address criminal justice under abstract, idealized conditions that assume away real-world uncertainty. We don't have time, …
Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation
A Dignity-Respecting Model of Targeted Restrictions of Liberty for Liberal States
Av Alec Walen
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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Detention is among the most controversial and complex powers a state can exercise over an individual, raising the fundamental question: how can a liberal state justify restricting the liberty of certain individuals for the security of others, while still upholding the dignity of those whose freedom …
Playing Fair
Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment
Inbunden, 2018
1243 kr
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While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there has been little sustained effort to link the two. In Playing Fair, Richard Dagger aims to fill this gap and provide a unified theory of political obligation and the justification of punishment that …
Beyond Punishment?
A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction
Inbunden, 2019
1498 kr
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People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods. Some may be deported, may be subjected to continued detention, or may have their criminal records …
Just Sentencing
Principles and Procedures for a Workable System
Inbunden, 2013
1498 kr
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What are the most important purposes of punishment, in general and in particular cases? What makes just sentencing? These eternal questions are very difficult to answer because traditional as well as emerging sentencing purposes often conflict. Retributive and non-retributive institutions and …
Retributivism Has a Past
Has It a Future?
Inbunden, 2012
1397 kr
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The fundamental contrast between the ideas that punishment is morally justified because people have behaved wrongly (retributivist) and that punishment is morally justified only when it has good consequences (consequentialist/utilitarian) has long existed and most likely always will. Beginning in …
Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury
Inbunden, 2012
1628 kr
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Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state. Albert W. Dzur considers how the jury, rather than merely expressing …
Popular Punishment
On the Normative Significance of Public Opinion
Av RYBERG, Jesper Ryberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1397 kr
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Should public opinion determine--or even influence--sentencing policy and practice? Should the punishment of criminal offenders reflect what the public regards as appropriate? These deceptively simple questions conceal complex theoretical and methodological challenges to the administration of …
The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice
A Comparative Account
Inbunden, 2020
1482 kr
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In The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice, Jacqueline S. Hodgson focuses on the potentially radical and fundamental changes taking place within criminal justice in Britain and in France and the ways that these are driven by wider domestic, European or international concerns. This metamorphosis away …
