Social Justice, Criminal Justice: The Role of American Law in Effecting and Preventing Social Change

by Cyndy Caravelis Hughes, Matthew Robinson, Cyndy Caravelis

Book Overview

Social Justice, Criminal Justice is a thought-provoking examination of the U.S. legal system, focusing on how criminal justice and social justice are related. The book provides a solid foundation of key philosophical and theoretical issues and goes on to examine the function of the law as it relates to social justice issues. The authors present and explain the foundational legal documents of the United States, and critically examine how those same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323264514
• ISBN13: 9780323264518
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.2"