Making Amends - Softcover

Davis, Gwynn

 
9780415862134: Making Amends

Synopsis

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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Gwynn Davis, Heinz Messmer, Mark S. Umbreit, Robert B. Coates

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ISBN 10:  0415067081 ISBN 13:  9780415067089
Publisher: Routledge, 1992
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