Privilege or Punish

Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties

Dan Markel, Jennifer M Collins, Ethan J Leib (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538006-4 (ISBN)

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This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status? And, second, how should a defendant's family status be recognized, if at all, in a criminal justice system situated within a liberal democracy committed to egalitarian principles of non-discrimination? After surveying the variety of "family ties benefits" and "family ties burdens" in our criminal justice system, the authors explain why policymakers and courts should view with caution and indeed skepticism any attempt to distribute these benefits or burdens based on one's family status. This is a controversial stance, but Markel, Collins, and Leib argue that in many circumstances there are simply too many costs to the criminal justice system when it gives special treatment based on one's family ties or responsibilities.

Privilege or Punish breaks new ground by offering an important synthetic view of the intersection between crime, punishment, and the family. Although in recent years scholars have been successful in analyzing the indirect effects of certain criminal justice policies and practices on the family, few have recognized the panoply of laws (whether statutory or common law-based) expressly drawn to privilege or disadvantage persons based on family status alone. It is critically necessary to pause and think through how and why our laws intentionally target one's family status and how the underlying goals of such a choice might better be served in some cases. This book begins that vitally important conversation with an array of innovative policy recommendations that should be of interest to anyone interested in the improvement of our criminal justice system.

Dan Markel is Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law and the Founder and Editor in Chief of "prawfs.com." Jennifer Collins is an Associate Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. Ethan Leib is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law.

Introduction ; Part I: The Challenge of Family Ties Benefits ; Intersections Between Family and the State's Criminal Justice System ; A Framework for Analyzing Family Ties Benefits ; Applying the Spartan Presumption to Family Ties Benefits ; Part II: The Challenge of Family Taxes ; Sites of Familial Taxes ; A Framework For Family Taxes ; Evaluating the Case Against Family Taxes ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.5.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 236 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-538006-1 / 0195380061
ISBN-13	978-0-19-538006-4 / 9780195380064
Zustand	Neuware