Merciful judgments and contemporary society legal problems, legal possibilities
Merciful Judgments and 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 abo...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- 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