From Social Justice to Criminal Justice : Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law /
edited by William C. Heffernan and John Kleinig.
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- xi, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
- Practical and professional ethics series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate numbers. This collection of original, interactive essays, written from a variety of ideological perspectives, explores some of the more troubling questions and ethical dilemmas inherent in this situation. The contributors, including well-known legal and political philosophers Philip Pettit, George Fletcher, and Jeremy Waldron, examine issues such as heightened vulnerability, indigent representation, and rotten social background defences
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Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--United States Social justice--United States