Doing justice to mercy : religion, law, and criminal justice / / edited by Jonathan Rothchild, Matthew Myer Boulton and Kevin Jung.
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| Superior document: | Studies in religion and culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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| Physical Description: | xi, 280 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Case studies in justice and mercy
- Race and class: Race, class, and the development of criminal justice policy / Marc Mauer
- Domestic violence: Complicity or justice and mercy? sexual violence challenges, the criminal justice system, and the churches / Lois Gehr Livezey
- Death penalty: Echoes of grace : from the prison to the state house / Ernie Lewis
- Sentencing: Recapturing the good, not merely measuring harms : rehabilitation, restoration, and the federal sentencing guidelines / Jonathan Rothchild
- Law and society: A place for mercy / Albert W. Alschuler
- International law: Why international law matters in God's world / David Scheffer
- Critical response to David Scheffer / David Little
- Approaches to justice and mercy
- Scriptural approaches: Samaritan justice : a theology of "mercy" and "neighborhood" / Matthew Myer Boulton
- Political theology approaches: The way of the cross as theatric of counterterror / Mark Lewis Taylor
- Critical response to Mark Lewis Taylor / Sarah Coakley
- Theological ethics approaches: Criminal justice and responsible mercy / William Schweiker
- Phenomenological approaches: Fallibility and fragility : a reflection on justice and mercy / Kevin Jung
- Social ethics approaches: Justice and mercy : the relation of societal norms and empathic feeling / Peter J. Paris
- Historical theology approaches: Criminal justice and the law of love : reflections on the public theology of Reinhold Niebuhr / W. Clark Gilpin
- Critical response to W. Clark Gilpin / William C. Placher
- Postscript / William Schweiker.