Crime and Morality The Significance of Criminal Justice in Post-modern Culture
Over the last twenty-five years the significance of criminal justice has dramatically changed. In a "post-modern" culture, criminal law serves more and more as a focal point in public morality. The "discovery" of the victim of crime can be seen as the marking point by which crimi...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Morality, Criminal Justice and Criminal Events
- Criminality and the Norm
- Morality and Culture
- Morality and Post-Modernism
- Criminal Law and Morality
- Solidarity and Victimhood
- 2 Morality and Criminal Justice Policy
- The Discovery of Petty Crime
- Comments
- Conclusion
- 3 Morality and Victims
- Crime as a Moral Problem
- The Victimological Twist
- The Rediscovery of the Victim
- The Victimalization Process
- 4 Victimalization of the Sexually Abused Child
- The Ambivalence
- The “Discovery”
- Individualization of the Child
- From Fantasy to Reality
- Conclusion
- 5 The De-victimalization of the Prostitute
- From Regulation to Brothel Prohibition
- A Psychological Problem
- A Sexual Variation
- The Second Feminist Wave
- Conclusion
- 6 Solidarity or Virtuousness; Rorty versus Maclntyre
- Maclntyre’s Virtuous Community
- Rorty’s Ironic Solidarity
- The Moral Subject
- Liberalism and Solidarity
- Conclusion
- 7 Criminality and Liberalism: Some Closing Comments
- The Issue of Crime
- Criminology
- Criminal Justice Policy
- Normative Liberalism
- The Normative State
- Normative Upbringing
- Conclusion
- References