Understanding justice : an introduction to ideas, perspectives, and controversies in modern penal theory
"Understanding Justice has been designed for students from a range of disciplines and is suitable for a variety of crime-related courses in sociology, social policy, law and social work. It will also be useful to professionals in criminal justice agencies and to all those interested in understanding the issues behind public and political debates on punishment."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
Open University Press, Buckingham, 2003
ix, 218 pages ; 25 cm.
9780335210374, 9780335210367, 0335210376, 0335210368
50334053
1. Perspectives on punishment
Part one: The goals of punishment: the juridical perspective
2. Utilitarian approaches
3. Retribution
4. Hybrids, compromises and syntheses
5. Restorative justice: diversion, compromise or replacement discourse
Part two: Punishment and modernity: the sociological perspective
6. Punishment and progress: the Durkheimian tradition
7. The political economy of punishment: Marxist approaches
8. The disciplined society: Foucault and the analysis of penality
9. Understanding contemporary penality
Part three: Towards justice?
10. The struggle for justice: critical criminology and critical legal studies
Postscript: Beyond modernity: the fate of justice
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