Informal Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138742758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 204 str.

Dermot Feenan

Opis

This title was first published in 2002: This volume explores conceptual debates and provides contemporary research in the field of informal criminal justice, including chapters on paramilitary "punishment" and post-cease-fire restorative justice schemes in Northern Ireland, post-apartheid vigilantism in South Africa, and informal crime management in England.

Spis treści

1: Re-introducing Informal Criminal Justice; 2: Legality, Legitimacy and the Politics of Informalism; 3: What’s in a Name? Some Thoughts on the Vocabulary of Vigilantism and Related Forms of ‘Informal Criminal Justice’ 1; 4: Community Justice in Conflict: Paramilitary Punishment in Northern Ireland; 5: Republican Hegemony or Community Ownership? Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland 1; 6: Informal Crime Management in a Northern British City: Crime Fear and Locality; 7: Vigilantism and Popular Justice after Apartheid; 8: The ‘New’ Vigilantism in Post-April 1994 South Africa: Searching for Explanations; 9: From Informal Justice to Formal Injustice: The Decriminalization of Political Murder in Weimar and Nazi Germany; 10: Legitimizing ‘Justice’

O autorze

Dermot Feenan