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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- The author of the Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- An Uncertain Point of Departure -- The Context of this Book -- The Middle-Ages in Western Europe���Justice in Transition -- The Later 20th-Century: The Need for a Different Justice Paradigm -- The Penological Vacuum and the Naissance of Restorative Justice -- The Need for Definition -- Justice Defined -- Its Relationship with Equity -- The Place of Mitigation |
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The Characteristics of MercyThe Extraordinary Case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi -- The Ensuing Debate���The Opinion of Professor Anthony Duff -- Professor Lindsay Farmer�s Response to Duff -- Duff�s Response to Lindsay Farmer -- Why is the Debate about Mercy so Important? -- Mercy and the Punitive Legacy -- Background Considerations -- �Populist Punitivism� and Penal Instrumentalism -- The Moral Credibility of the Law and the Place of Mercy -- Alwynne Smart on �Mercy�: Clarification or Confusion? -- �Institutionalising� Mercy |
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Mercy and Retributive Penology: Incompatible Bedfellows?Towards an Institutionalised Form of Mercy -- Desert of Punishment -- Desert of Mercy -- Bifurcated Criminal Justice -- Conceiving Corrections Differently -- Objections to Bifurcated Penal Policies -- Politics and Public Opinion -- Reparative Sanctions and Victim-Offender Mediation -- Victims of Criminal Justice? -- The nature of the debate -- The Approach of Cavadino and Dignan (1997) -- Victim Status: The Need for Caution -- The Objections of Andrew Ashworth (1992 and 1993) |
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Victims� Rights: Myth or Reality?The Victim�s Charter 1990 and Onwards -- Exploring Victims� Rights -- The Unique Status of Victims of Crime -- The Nature of Rights -- Victims� Rights: A �First Principle� Approach -- Rights and Responsibilities -- Victim Inclusiveness and Stakeholder Status -- �Fault- Lines� and Fallacies -- The Need to Re-Configure Criminal Justice -- �Fault-lines� within Contemporary Criminal Justice Philosophy -- Crime Control or Crime Reduction -- Traditionalism -- Separation of Powers -- The Uses of Imprisonment |
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The Structure of Correctional ServicesFallacies within Contemporary Criminal Justice Philosophy -- Retribution versus Restoration -- Mercy has no Place within Criminal Justice -- Bifurcated Justice as Injustice -- Reduced Use of Imprisonment Increases Public Risk -- A Political and Social Consensus for Penal Reform is Impossible to Achieve -- Mercy and Restorative Justice -- Why Restorative Justice Remains Problematic -- Is a �Core Philosophy� of Restorative Justice Essential? -- Is There a Need to Re-evaluate Restorative Justice and Mercy? |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Great Britain. |
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain.
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Prisons -- Great Britain.
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation. |
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Prisons. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lappi-Seppälä, Tapio, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cornwell, David J. Mercy 1909976016 (OCoLC)882430982 |
| ISBN |
9781908162786 (electronic book) |
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1908162783 (electronic book) |
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9781908162779 (electronic book) |
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1908162775 (electronic book) |
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9781909976016 |
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1909976016 |
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