UID:
kobvindex_HPB779828333
Format:
1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:
9780814785157
,
0814785158
Series Statement:
Critical America Series
Content:
In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the "sense of justice": an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? Often, the sense of justice is dismissed as little more than an emotional impulse that is out of place in a criminal justice system based on abstract legal and political norms equally applied to all. Dub.
Note:
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Significance of the Sense of Justice; 1 Uses and Abuses of the Sense of Justice; 2 The Sense of Justice in Legal Thought; 3 The Sense of Justice Misconceived; 4 Rethinking the Sense of Justice; 5 The Sense of Justice in Penal Law; Conclusion: Law's Empathy; Notes; Index; About the Author.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dubber, Markus Dirk. Sense of Justice : Empathy in Law and Punishment. New York : NYU Press, ©2006 ISBN 9780814719732
Language:
English
URL:
NYU Press Open Square
