These essays present a study of the issue of responsibility for actions in the criminal justice system. Attacking the problem on various levels, the contributors look at the assumptions made by institutions regarding offender responsibility, and then turn to the views of the offenders.
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These essays present a study of the issue of responsibility for actions in the criminal justice system. Attacking the problem on various levels, the contributors look at the assumptions made by institutions regarding offender responsibility, and then turn to the views of the offenders.
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New. 0809322129. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--304 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword Preface 1 The Social Construction of Responsibility 3 2 Philosophical Perspectives on Responsibility and Excuse 15 3 Superintending "Bankruptcies" in Child Rearing: A Family Court Model of Juvenile Justice 33 4 Cell Out: Renting Out the Responsibility for the Criminally Confined 49 5 Managing to Prevent Prison Suicide: Are Staff at Risk Too? 68 6 "It's Not Your Fault! " A Message to Offenders from Criminal Justice and Corrections 87 7 Responsibility-A Key Word in the Danish Prison System 94 8 Moral Disengagement and the Role of Ideology in the Displacement and Diffusion of Responsibility among Terrorists * 9 Responsibility, Anxiety, and Organizational Deviance: The Systemic and Elusive Properties of Responsibility in Organizations and Groups * 10 Helping Offenders Accept Personal Responsibility: Strategies for Controlling Criminal Behavior 155 Conclusion: Negotiating Responsibility in an "Age of Innocence" * Epilogue: Why Don't They Hit Back? * List of Contributors 195. --DESCRIPTION: With this collection of essays, Jack Kamerman presents the first sustained examination of one of the underpinnings of the operation of the criminal justice system: the issue of responsibility for actions and, as a consequence, the issue of accountability. Unique in the breadth of its approach, this volume examines the issue of responsibility from the perspectives of criminal justice professionals, sociologists, philosophers, and public administrators from four countries. Attacking the problem on various levels, the essayists look first at the assumptions made by criminal justice institutions regarding offender responsibility, then turn to the views of offenders on the causes of their own actions and to the consequences of offenders either to accept or deny responsibility. These scholars also examine the social and psychological circumstances under which people in general accept or deny responsibility for what they do, thus providing the basis for understanding the process of social distance as a major precondition for people to commit atrocities without seeing themselves as responsible. Understanding the circumstances under which people either distance themselves from or embrace responsibility enables criminologists to make grounded recommendations for reordering responsibility in the criminal justice system and, more generally, for restoring a sense of responsibility to organizations, occupations, and society. Aside from Kamerman, the contributors are William C. Collins, Charles Fethe, Gilbert Geis, Robert J. Kelly, Alison Liebling, Jess Maghan, Mark Harrison Moore, Paul Neurath, John Rakis, William Rentzmann, and Jose E. Sanchez. --with a bonus offer--
