Judgments of Love in Criminal Justice
This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law. Its general perspective could not be more original and its critical ethical edge on the state of international law could not be timelier. It explores a compassionate philosophical approach to the
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Judgments of Love in Criminal Justice
Judgments of Love in Criminal Justice
Farhad Malekian
Judgments of Love in Criminal Justice
Farhad Malekian Institute of International Criminal Law Uppsala, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-46899-0 ISBN 978-3-319-46900-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46900-3
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To my mother the blind Lady Justice To my father the Gavel of Justice And my tribute to the dearly beloved perpetual bouquet 0214 and our buds 0912, 0623, 0604, 0308 Kapca
Preface
I initiate and end almost all of my lectures and examination questions with the phrase “with love and respect”. This phrase brings all students close together and encapsulates the raison d’eˆtre that the lectures highlighted a tangible award for the understanding of law. I most often received a standing ovation from the students as I stood in front of them with the globe of love. While teaching law courses to inmates incarcerated in one of the notorious Swedish prisons, the Anstalten Kumla, I decided on one occasion to deliver a lecture face-to-face. One of the head guards drove me to the prison and asked me if he could give me some information about my students and the crimes for which they had been convicted. ‘No thanks’, I replied. He repeated his question again. My answer was the same. He ultimately decided to tell me, even though I did not have any curiosity to know. I succeeded in not hearing his words with a variety of tricks. While driving me back in the evening, the guard wished to confess about our meeting in the morning: “if
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