Markus Dirk Dubber: 3 books
The Sense of Justice
Empathy in Law and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists...
Victims in the War on Crime
The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims,...
The Police Power
Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.
Dubber explores the roots of the power...