This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical
to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by
treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of
criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's
role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it
possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its
justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed
only for wrongdoing, the book proposes a criterion for repudiating
the legal paternalism that informs drug-possession laws. Rethinking
the Foundations of Criminal Justice outlines steps for taming the
state's power to punish offenders; in particular, it draws on
restorative justice research to outline possibilities for a
penology that emphasizes offenders' humanity. Through its
examination of equality issues, the book integrates recent work on
the social justice/criminal justice connection into the scholarly
literature on punishment, and so will particularly appeal to those
interested in criminal justice theory.
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