Merciful judgments and contemporary society : (Record no. 12168)
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| fixed length control field | 03152cam a2200205 a 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107008434 (hbk.) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1107008433 (hbk.) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KL200.M47 2011 |
| Item number | 08145239 |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Merciful judgments and contemporary society : |
| Remainder of title | legal problems, legal possibilities / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Austin Sarat |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication or production | 2012 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 309 pages ; |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | When can or should legal judgment be merciful? / Austin Sarat -- The place of mercy in legal discourse / Robert A. Ferguson -- Commentary on Chapter 1 : response to "The place of mercy in legal discourse" / Jamie Leonard -- Mercy, crime control, and moral credibility / Paul H. Robinson -- Commentary on Chapter 2 : thoughts on mercy and self-examination / William Brewbaker -- Defending a role for mercy in a criminal justice system / James Staihar and Stephen Macedo -- Commentary on Chapter 3 : commentary on "Defending a role for mercy in a criminal justice system" / Pamela Pierson -- Actions of mercy / Alice Ristroph -- Commentary on Chapter 4 : Reflections on "Actions of mercy" / Steven H. Hobbs -- A Feminist view of mercy, judgment, and the "Exception" in the context of transitional justice / Susan H. Williams -- Commentary on Chapter 5 : the interpretative process : feminist reconstructions / Timothy Hoff |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "This book explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them"-- |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about the moral worth and importance of mercy, this book focuses on mercy as a part of, and problem, for law. Whether one starts from a worry about rules and discretion, about the attitudes of citizens and their leaders, or ways to undo the past, merciful judgments challenge and perplex, just as they help to sustain, our legal system. Charting these possibilities and problems is the work that this book seeks to do. Here we ask what challenges merciful judgments pose for law? When and why do those judgments encourage and nurture legal ingenuity and resourcefulness? When and why do they precipitate crises and breakdowns in legal authority? This book is a product of The University of Alabama School of Law symposia series on "Law, Knowledge & Imagination." This series explores the ways law is known and imagined in a diverse array of disciplines, including political science, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and science. In addition, books produced through the Alabama symposia explore various conjunctions of law, knowledge, and imagination as they play out in debates about theory and policy and speak to venerable questions as well as contemporary issues"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Criminal justice, Administration of |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Law and ethics. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Transitional justice. |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sarat, Austin. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Lagos Study Centre | Lagos Study Centre | 10/24/2023 | KL200.M47 2011 | 08145239 | Books |