Empirical Desert

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

11-1-2011

Abstract

This chapter presents an authoritative overview of the community's notion of justice, the so-called “empirical desert.” It includes comments by some of the nation's top legal scholars from the field of criminal law, tackling relevant issues ranging from compliance-promoting intuitions to punishment, criminal justice, legitimacy, sentencing, and restorative justice.

Keywords

justice, empirical desert, criminal law, Compliance, punishment, criminal justice, legitimacy, sentencing, restorative justice

Publication Title

Criminal Law Conversations

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199861279.003.0002

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