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Imagining a Greater Justice - Criminal Violence, Punishment and Relational Justice (Paperback)
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Imagining a Greater Justice - Criminal Violence, Punishment and Relational Justice (Paperback)
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Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment.
By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by
victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for
survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond
traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and
emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a
more compassionate, effective and just response to crime. The
book's chapters follow a journey from victim experiences of
violence to community healing from violence. Early chapters examine
the relational harms inflicted by the worst wrongs, the moral
responsibility of wrongdoers and common mistakes made in judging
wrongdoing. Particular attention is paid here to sexual violence.
The book then moves to questions of just punishment: proper
sentencing by judges, mandatory sentences approved by the public,
and the realities of contemporary incarceration, focusing
particularly on solitary confinement and sexual violence. In its
remaining chapters, the book looks at changes brought by the
victims' rights movement and victim needs that current law does
not, and perhaps cannot meet. It then addresses possibilities for
offender change and challenges for majority America in addressing
race discrimination in criminal justice. The book concludes with a
look at how individuals might live out the ideals of a
greater-relational-justice.
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