Equality: Racial and Class Disparities in State-Imposed Punishment
Even if the penal reforms proposed in the previous chapter were adopted, the question would remain whether they are imposed in an unbiased way. This question takes on special urgency given the fact that criminal defendants are disproportionately African-A
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Rights and Wrongs Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice
William C. Heffernan
Critical Criminological Perspectives
Series Editors Reece Walters Faculty of Law Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, QLD, Australia Deborah H. Drake Social Policy & Criminology Department The Open University Milton Keynes, UK
The Palgrave Critical Criminological Perspectives book series aims to showcase the importance of critical criminological thinking when examining problems of crime, social harm and criminal and social justice. Critical perspectives have been instrumental in creating new research agendas and areas of criminological interest. By challenging state defined concepts of crime and rejecting positive analyses of criminality, critical criminological approaches continually push the boundaries and scope of criminology, creating new areas of focus and developing new ways of thinking about, and responding to, issues of social concern at local, national and global levels. Recent years have witnessed a flourishing of critical criminological narratives and this series seeks to capture the original and innovative ways that these discourses are engaging with contemporary issues of crime and justice. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14932
William C. Heffernan
Rights and Wrongs Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice
William C. Heffernan John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York, NY, USA
Critical Criminological Perspectives ISBN 978-3-030-12781-7 ISBN 978-3-030-12782-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12782-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019930830 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the regist
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