Imagining a Greater Justice: Criminal Violence, Punishment and Relational Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138354173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 324 str.

Samuel H. Pillsbury

Opis

Acknowledging that public fear and anger about criminal violence drive the punitive impulse that created the mass incarceration of today, this book challenges many deep-rooted assumptions about wrongdoing, as well as ideas about freedom and individuality and the obligations owed to strangers.

Spis treści

Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Judging Wrong  1. Violence and the Soul  2. Blaming for Moral Disregard  3. Misjudging Wrong  Part Two: Just Punishment  4. Punishing with Regard  5. Cruelty by Law: Mandatory Life in California  6. Our Prisons, Our Prisoners: Cruelty in Penal Practice  Part 3: Relational Justice  7. Victims and Justice under Law  8. Victims and Relational Justice  9. Redeeming the Responsible  10. Healing the American Community: Race and Criminal Justice  11. Living a Larger Justice

O autorze

Samuel H. Pillsbury is Professor of Law and Frederick J. Lower Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He teaches criminal law, criminal practice and American legal history. A nationally recognized scholar in criminal responsibility, punishment and emotion and the law, his previous books include Judging Evil: Rethinking the Laws of Murder and Manslaughter and How Criminal Law Works. After college, Pillsbury was a reporter covering police and courts in North Florida. He then earned his law degree at the University of Southern California, where he graduated first in his class. He clerked for US District Judge William Matthew Byrne, Jr., and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles before going into teaching. In 2006 he was ordained as an Episcopal deacon. He has volunteered as a chaplain in LA juvenile detention halls and jails, as well as prisons in California and New York. He has also worked with survivors of homicide and families with loved ones in prison.