From Social Justice to Criminal Justice : Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law
The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate number. This collection of original, interactive essays, written from a variety of ideological perspectives, explores some of the more troubling questions and ethical dilemmas inherent in this situation. The contributors, including well-known legal and political philosophers Philip Pettit, George Fletcher, and Jeremy Waldron, examine issues such as heightened vulnerability, indigent representation, and rotten social background defenses.This essay considers the effect these various associations between poverty and child maltreatment have on the criminal ... Holding parents criminally responsible for harm to children caused by poverty deters the struggle to achieve socialanbsp;...
| Title | : | From Social Justice to Criminal Justice : Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law |
| Author | : | William C. Heffernan Associate Professor of Law John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, City University of New York John Kleinig Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Law and Police Science John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice |
| Publisher | : | Oxford University Press, USA - 2000-03-27 |
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