Blamestorming, blamemongers and scapegoats : allocating blame in the criminal justice process /
Gavin Dingwall and Tim Hillier.
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Medvirkende | Hillier, Tim, (author.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (218 p.)
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - BLAMESTORMING, BLAMEMONGERS AND SCAPEGOATS; Contents; About the authors ; Preface; 1. Introduction and the centrality of blame; The Case of Mrs Inglis; The Case of Baby P; Blamestorming; Blamemongers; Scapegoats; Blame; Preliminary reflections; 2. Blame in the criminal justice process; Pre-trial diversion: removing those of limited culpability; Pre-trial diversion: fixed penalties for particular categories of offence; Pre-trial diversion: the routine diversion of some types of criminal conduct to specialist state agencies; Mode of trial: deciding which court will hear a case. - Justifying sentence: the normative backgroundJustifying sentence: the legal background; Conclusions: blame and procedural decision-making; 3. Blame and the blameless; The minimum age of criminal responsibility; Mental capacity; Justifications, excuses and circumstances precluding wrongfulness; Blame and luck; 4. Blameless crime; Motive: criminalising the well-intentioned; Recklessness: criminalising the risk-taker; Negligence and gross negligence: criminalising the incompetent; Strict liability: criminalising the blameless; Conclusion; 5. Blame amplification ; Offence seriousness. - Legal determinations about blameBlame and procedural decision-making; Blame, luck and diminished responsibility; Precursory conduct and the attribution of blame; Quantifying blame; Swiss cheese; The blamemongers: from process to value; Glossary; References; Case list; Index. - Shocking and extraordinary crimes6. Putting oneself in harm's way; Blame, gang membership and paramilitary involvement; Purchasing drugs, 'associating with criminals' and expanding the 'blameworthy'; Drug misuse and crime; Blame, intoxication and alcohol-related offending; Conclusion: voluntarily heightening the risk of offending; 7. Blame, punitiveness and criminalisation; The growth of blame culture and the need for scapegoats; From civil liability to criminal liability; From human rights to the International Criminal Court; 8. Blamestorming and blamemongers; Defining blame. - This is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalisation as a social and political process. It will also be of wider interest to anyone wishing to discover the role of blame in modern society.
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| ISBN | 1-4473-0499-3. - 1-4473-0501-9. - 1-4473-1161-2. - 1-4473-2116-2
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