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Intuitions of justice and the utility of desert
1 online resource (xxiii, 559 pages) : illustrations
Research suggests that people of all demographics have nuanced and sophisticated notions of justice. Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert sketches the contours of a wide range of lay judgments of justice, touching many if not most of the issues that penal code drafters or policy makers must face.
The nature of judgments about justice -- Judgments about justice as intuitional and nuanced -- Judgments about justice as a human universal : agreements on a core of wrongdoing -- The origins of shared intuitions of justice -- Disagreements about justice -- Changing people's judgments of justice -- Should the criminal law care what the lay person thinks is just? -- Current law's deference to lay judgments of justice -- Current law's conflicts with lay judgments of justice -- Normative crime control : the utility of desert -- Building moral credibility and the disutility of injustice -- Deviations from empirical desert -- Implications for criminal justice and other reform -- The content of lay judgments of justice -- Rules of conduct : doctrines of criminalization -- Rules of conduct : doctrines of justification -- Principles of adjudication : doctrines of culpability -- Principles of adjudication : doctrines of excuse -- Principles of adjudication : doctrines of grading -- Law-community agreement and conflict, and its implications -- Empirical studies of lay judgments of justice as a law and policy tool -- Explaining history : shifting views of criminality -- Testing competing theories : blackmail -- Testing competing theories : justification defenses -- Guiding judicial discretion : extralegal punishment factors -- Intuitions of justice & the utility of desert.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013