Not Just Deserts - A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice

by Philip Pettit and John Braithwaite

Book Overview

Introducing a radical shift in the research agenda of criminology, Braithwaite and Pettit here attack currently fashionable retributivist theories of punishment, arguing that the criminal justice system is so integrated that sentencing policy has to be considered in the system-wide context. They offer a comprehensive theory of criminal justice which points the way to practical intervention in the real world of incremental reform, and argue for a republican...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240562
• ISBN13: 9780198240563
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"