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

HV9950 / .F79 2000

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