This book on crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community responsibility. Forst has assembled a collection of authors who are writing in four parts: (1) the philosophical foundations and the moral dimension of crime and punishment; (2) the sense of community and the way it influences the problem of crime; (3) on offenders and offences; and (4) on the response of the criminal justice system.
1: Socio-Economics, Crime, and Justice; I: Foundations; 2: Justice and Punishment: Philosophical Basics; 3: Economic Perspectives on Criminality: An Eclectic View; 4: The Limits of Legal Sanctions; II: The Community in the Human; 5: Crime, Conscience, and Family; 6: Crime and Ethnicity; 7: Women, Crime, and Justice; III: Offenders and Offenses; 8: Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice; 9: Community Responses to Crime and Fear of Crime; 10: Social Structure and Spouse Assault; 11: School Violence and the Breakdown of Community Homogeneity; IV: The Criminal Justice System; 12: Good Policing; 13: The Prosecutor and the Public; 14: The Honest Politician's Guide to Sentencing Reform
Brian Forst
