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Braithwaite John

Not Just Deserts : A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice - Oxford Clarendon Press 1990 - 229p

CONTENT: 1. Introduction 1 2. For a Comprehensive Theory 12 3. For a Consequentialist Theory 25 4. Identifying a Comprehensive, ConsequentialistTarget 41 5. The Republican Idea 54 6. Interpreting the Republican Theory 86 7. Implementing the Republican Theory 137 8. Retributivism: An Inferior Theory 156 9. Retributivism: An Inferior Practice 182 10. Conclusion 202 References 210

Summary: 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 criminal justice system where the maximizing of individual dominion is set as the goal for progressive policy change.:

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Criminal Justice System2. Criminology

Dewey Class. No.: 345.000000 / BRA