Rights and Wrongs
Heffernan, William C.![Rights and Wrongs](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/348/34818604/CHSBZCOP0334818604.jpg)
This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state's role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed ...