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Negotiating responsibility in the criminal justice system /

With this collection of essays, Jack Kamerman presents the first sustained examination of one of the underpinnings of the operation of the criminal justice system: the issue of responsibility for actions and, as a consequence, the issue of accountability. Unique in the breadth of its approach, this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kamerman, Jack B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Colección:Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Frameworks. The social construction of responsibility / Jack Kamerman
  • Philosophical perspectives on responsibility and excuse / Charles Fethe. II. Criminal justice institutions. Superintending "bankruptcies" in child rearing : a family court model of juvenile justice / Mark Harrison Moore
  • Cell out : renting out the responsibility for the criminally confined / Jess Maghan
  • Managing to prevent prison suicide : are staff at risk too? / Alison Liebling
  • "It's not your fault!" : a message to offenders from criminal justice and corrections / William C. Collins
  • Responsibility : a key word in the Danish prison system / William Rentzmann. III. Offenders and responsibility. Moral disengagement and the role of ideology in the displacement and diffusion of responsibility among terrorists / Robert J. Kelly
  • Responsibility, anxiety and organizational deviance : the systemic and elusive properties of responsibility in organizations and groups / José E. Sánchez
  • Helping offenders accept personal responsibility : strategies for controlling criminal behavior / John Rakis
  • Conclusion : negotiating responsibility in an "age of innocence" / Jack Kamerman
  • Epilogue : why don't they hit back? / Paul Neurath.