Crime and Morality: The Significance of Criminal Justice in Post-Modern Culture

by Hans Boutellier

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 criminal justice got its central position in the maintenance of social order. It is the result of a general "victimalization" of today's morality.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792360915
• ISBN13: 9780792360919
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"