Making amends : mediation and reparation in criminal justice /
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| Author / Creator: | Davis, Gwynn, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154925 |
| Summary: | Reparation, or making amends, is an ancient theme in criminal justice. It was revived in both Europe and North America in the 1980s as a practical alternative both to retributivism, and to the various utilitarian projects traditionally associated with retributive justice.Making Amends examines the practice of these schemes in the UK, USA, and Germany, and shows how criminal justice institutions were unresponsive to these attempts to cast justice in a new form. Yet the experiments reflected an abiding dissatisfaction with criminal courts and with the manner in which justice is conceived and expressed within the criminal framework. The authors' conclusions therefore have implications for the workings of the criminal justice system as a whole. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203161017 9780203161012 1134918518 9781134918515 1280338288 9781280338281 0415067081 |