{"product_id":"rights-and-wrongs","title":"Rights and Wrongs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed only for wrongdoing, the book proposes a criterion for repudiating the legal paternalism that informs drug-possession laws. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e outlines steps for taming the state's power to punish offenders; in particular, it draws on restorative justice research to outline possibilities for a penology that emphasizes offenders' humanity. Through its examination of equality issues, the book integrates recent work on the social justice\/criminal justice connection into the scholarly literature on punishment, and so will particularly appeal to those interested in criminal justice theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50021746311418,"sku":"9783030127848","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_cf016504-11ce-401e-a0a5-8effda3f7588.jpg?v=1786139176","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/rights-and-wrongs","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}