@article{868105,
      author = {Heffernan, William C.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/868105},
      title = {Rights and wrongs : rethinking the foundations of criminal  justice /},
      abstract = {This 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. 'Rethinking the Foundations of  Criminal Justice' 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. --},
      recid = {868105},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}