On the Book of Job, Justice and The Precariousness of the Criminal Law.
The criminal law has been subject to both increased demands in the societal functions that it is expected to perform, and heightened scrutiny for those points at which it fails to achieve these ends. The resulting pressures put into question the criminal law's capacity to perform justice. Rather tha...
| Published in: | Law, Culture & the Humanities Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 98 - 119 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2008
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