Moral Judgment: Does The Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? - Couverture rigide

Wilson, James Q.

 
9780465036240: Moral Judgment: Does The Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System?
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ISBN 10 : 0465036244 ISBN 13 : 9780465036240
Editeur : Basic Books, 1997

Synopsis

In Moral Judgment, James Q. Wilson demonstrates how our judicial system has compromised its obligation to discriminate between right and wrong. Citing highly publicized verdicts, he makes an erudite case for re-examining the ethical drift of contemporary jurisprudence. Today's headlines he claims, are proof that our judicial system relentlessly subjects itself to forces that limit its capacity to resolve even the gravest moral issues: judging guilt or innocence in the most grievous capital crimes.Moral Judgment provides a much needed antidote to these ambiguities, and a triumph for one of our most admired ethical scholars.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In Moral Judgment, James Q. Wilson demonstrates how our judicial system has compromised its obligation to discriminate between right and wrong. Citing highly publicized verdicts, he makes an erudite case for re-examining the ethical drift of contemporary jurisprudence. Today's headlines he claims, are proof that our judicial system relentlessly subjects itself to forces that limit its capacity to resolve even the gravest moral issues: judging guilt or innocence in the most grievous capital crimes.Moral Judgment provides a much needed antidote to these ambiguities, and a triumph for one of our most admired ethical scholars.

Biographie de l'auteur

James Q. Wilson is James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at UCLA. His previous books include Thinking About Crime, On Character, Bureaucracy, Crime and Human Nature (with Richard J. Herrnstein), and the critically acclaimed The Moral Sense.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465036244
ISBN 13 
9780465036240
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0465047335 ISBN 13 :  9780465047338
Editeur : Basic Books, 1998
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