Toward a critique of guilt perspectives from law and the humanities

• Other Authors: Anderson, Matthew., Sarat, Austin.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2005.
• Series: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 36.
• Subjects: Law > General.; Social Science > Sociology > General.; Jurisprudence & general issues.; Sociology & anthropology.; Guilt (Law); Guilt > Religious aspects.; Guilt.; Guilt in literature.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849503341 (electronic bk.) :
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 155 p.)

This special volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" takes up a subject of an enormous import for law and legal scholarship, Guilt. At the center of our belief in law is the hope and expectation that law can differentiate the guilty from the innocent. But as the articles in this...