Gender Justice Beyond the Tribunals: From Criminal Accountability to Transformative Justice

Comparative Criminal Justice: Beyond ethnocentricism and relativism

The task of comparative criminal justice, most scholars would agree, is to compare and contrast our ways of responding to crime with those practiced elsewhere. It also often involves, even if it does not necessarily have to do so, borrowing from, or at least trying to learn from, what is done in other places. It would seem obvious, therefore that, if it is to be at all helpful, comparison requi...

Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender Matters

Through out most of our na tion's his tory, women of fend ers have been largely in visi ble or “for got ten” in a sys tem de signed to con trol and re ha bili tate men. Ac cord ing to Mau reen Cain, in both crimi nol ogy and more broadly in the crimi nal jus tice sys tem, women and girls “ex ist as Other: that is to say, they ex ist only in their dif fer ence from the male, the nor mal” (Cain, ...

Victorian Criminal Justice System

The criminal trial constitutes a drama performed by its leading actors (legal professionals) plus supporting actors (including spectators). How conscious and strategic are their performances? This article argues that conscious legal performativity is part of a sustained tradition of 'infotainment' with lasting implications for today's real-life courtroom dramas. The adoption of stereotypical co...

Dangerousness and Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Ethics

George Fletcher emerges in his writing, as in his life, as a colorful and highly individual figure. The last thing one expects of him is the surrender of individual identity to an anonymous submersion in the collective. Yet doctrinally he is a collectivist. In his recent writings, he has been seeking to collectivize just about everything: action, responsibility, guilt, liability, self-defense, ...