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Law without justice : why criminal law doesn't give people what they deserve /

This book is a ... for thoughtful legislators and all the rest of us who seek justice for persons charged with crimes-proportional punishment of the guilty, and exculpation of the morally blameless. The authors demonstrate, with remarkable lucidity, how and why the criminal law sometimes deliberatel...

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Основен автор: Robinson, Paul H., 1948-
Други автори: Cahill, Michael T.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=169171
Подобни документи: Print version:: Law without justice.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • Objectives and organization
  • The relevance of the project
  • 1. Doing justice and the distractions from it
  • Why focus on doing justice?
  • A further word on what we mean by "doing justice"
  • The utility of desert : the practical costs of deviations from doing justice
  • pt. I. Promoting justice in a complex world
  • 2. Fear of manipulation and abuse
  • Is a federal prison guard a "peace officer"?
  • Rejecting a defense for reasonable mistake of law (or for necessity, or immaturity)
  • "Whoosh, whoosh, push"
  • Improperly narrowing or rejecting legitimate excuses
  • Sodomized and taunted, the pot boils over
  • Relying upon a purely objective standard
  • Preventing over-individualization of an objective standard
  • 3. Advancing reliability
  • Too late for justice
  • Statutes of limitation
  • Howard aftermath
  • Mistakes of youth
  • Strict liability
  • Excluding coerced confessions and uncounseled lineups
  • 4. Making the most of limited resources
  • A bargain on contract killings?
  • Plea bargaining and witness immunity
  • Gravano aftermath
  • pt. II. Sacrificing justice to promote other interests
  • 5. Living by rules
  • Three hundred bodies in the backyard
  • Legality
  • Marsh aftermath
  • Cannibalism at sea
  • Denying legitimate excuses (for the sake of clarity)
  • Dudley aftermath
  • Setting boundaries : legality and changing norms.
  • 6. Controlling crime and criminals
  • Fleeing as murder
  • Deterrence
  • Rehabilitation
  • TV violence
  • Incapacitation
  • 7. Controlling police and prosecutors
  • Released to kill
  • Exclusionary rules
  • Speedy trial
  • Eyler aftermath
  • Pictures in the heating duct
  • Double jeopardy
  • Ignatow aftermath
  • Incompetency
  • A winged car powered by cocaine
  • Entrapment
  • Moral credibility "versus" legitimacy : evaluating the tradeoffs
  • 8. Promoting interests unrelated to criminal justice
  • Criminal camping
  • Criminalization of regulatory violations
  • Lindsey aftermath
  • Corporate criminality
  • The diplomatic rapist
  • Diplomatic and official immunity
  • pt. III. Regaining moral credibility
  • 9. Criminal justice reforms
  • Shifting evidentiary burdens
  • Revamping the verdict system
  • Using alternative punishment methods
  • 10. Employing civil rather than criminal process
  • Using administrative, instead of criminal, sanctions for regulatory violations
  • Controlling police and prosecutor misconduct without letting the criminal go free
  • Distinguishing dangerousness from blameworthiness
  • Conclusion : doing justice in a complex world.