A Theory of Criminal Justice

Download or read book A Theory of Criminal Justice written by Hyman Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyman Gross, in his "A Theory of Criminal Justice," sets forth his conception of criminal justice as social criticism and depicts it as the only view that "makes sense of the criminal jurisprudence that guides the law in any modern legal system." (3) The three stages of criminal justice so conceived, the accusatory, the testing (of the accusation), and the condemnatory, are all guided by "social rules of the highest authority-the law. . ." (4, and it is by reference to such rules that critical judgments peculiar to each stage are made.