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Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries to expose the UK's Citizenship test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a 'bridge to citizenship' which fosters greater inclusion and integration

Introduction -- Political Objectivity -- Envy as a Civic Emotion -- How the Body Is Involved in Moral and Cognitive Emotions -- Conscience and Context -- The Politics of Compassion -- Cultivating Citizenship: On the Importance of Stakeholding -- The Liberalism of Love -- Perfectionist Liberalism or Political Liberalism? How Might Amartya Sen Respond to Martha Nussbaum's Question? -- The "Transition" to Restorative Justice -- Reply.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 System -- Chapter 2 Property -- Chapter 3 Punishment -- Chapter 4 Morality -- Chapter 5 Family -- Chapter 6 Law -- Chapter 7 Monarchy -- Chapter 8 Democracy -- Chapter 9 War -- Chapter 10 History -- Conclusion -- Reply to Critics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries to expose the UK's Citizenship test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a 'bridge to citizenship' which fosters greater inclusion and integration.

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges. Not only does work in this area often force us to rethink ethics and political philosophy more generally, but its insights contain seeds of hope for addressing some of the greatest global problems facing humanity today. This book has been selective in bringing together some of the most pressing topics and issues in global justice as understood by the leading voices from both established and rising stars across twenty-five new chapters. The book explores severe poverty, climate change, egalitarianism, global citizenship, human rights, immigration, territorial rights, and much more.

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges. Not only does work in this area often force us to rethink about ethics and political philosophy more generally, but its insights contain seeds of hope for addressing some of the greatest global problems facing humanity today. The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice has been selective in bringing together some of the most pressing topics and issues in global justice as understood by the leading voices from both established and rising stars across twenty-five new chapters. This Handbook explores severe poverty, climate change, egalitarianism, global citizenship, human rights, immigration, territorial rights, and much more.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Retributions: Varieties of retribution, John Cottingham; A taxonomy of retributivism, Leo Zaibert; Punishment, Alan Brudner; Retributivism, Thom Brooks. Part II Retribution and Desert: Marxism and retribution, Jeffrie G. Murphy; Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered?, Stephen Nathanson; Three mistakes of retributivism, David Dolinko; Why punish the deserving?, Douglas N. Husak; Competing conceptions of modern desert: vengeful, deontological, and empirical, Paul H. Robinson; Retribution and capital punishment, Thom Brooks. Part III Proportionality: How to make the punishment fit the crime, Michael Davis; Justice, civilization and the death penalty: answering van den Haag, Jeffrey H. Reiman. Part IV Retributivist Emotions: The varieties of retributive experience, Christopher Bennett; The moral worth of retribution, Michael S. Moore. Part V Retribution and Mercy: Equity and mercy, Martha C. Nussbaum. Name index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Immigration rising -- CHAPTER 2: From subject to citizen -- CHAPTER 3: What is Britishness? -- CHAPTER 4: Testing citizenship -- CHAPTER 5: The English question -- CHAPTER 6: The free movement myth -- CHAPTER 7: Love and marriage -- CHAPTER 8: Seeking asylum -- CHAPTER 9: Ending Britishness -- CHAPTER 10: A future for Britishness? -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Deterrence Theory: The role of deterrence in the formulation of criminal law rules: at its worst when doing its best, Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley; How much do we really know about criminal deterrence?, Raymond Paternoster; Deterrence, Thom Brooks. Part II Deterrence and Desert: A deterrence theory of punishment, Anthony Ellis; Deterrence in a sea of 'just deserts': are utilitarian goals achievable in a world of 'limiting retributivism'?, Matthew Haist; Deterrent punishment and respect for persons, Zachary Hoskins; Punishment and duty, Victor Tadros. Part III Deterrence, Incapacitation and Prevention: Punishing dangerousness: cloaking preventive detention as criminal justice, Paul H. Robinson; The crime-control effect of incarceration: does scale matter?, Raymond V. Liedka, Anne Morrison Piehl and Bert Useem. Part IV Deterrence and Capital Punishment: Speech in favour of capital punishment, John Stuart Mill; Refuting Reiman and Nathanson, Ernest van den Haag; Is capital punishment morally required?, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule. Part V Deterrence and Corporate Crime: Corporate crime and deterrence, Assaf Hamdani and Alon Klement. Part VI Critics: The secret ambition of deterrence, Dan M. Kahan; The deterrence hypothesis and picking pockets at the pickpocket's hanging, David A. Anderson. Name index.

Rawls on constitutionalism and constitutional law / Frank I. Michelman -- Rawls and the law / Ronald Dworkin -- Are there limits to constitutional change? : Rawls on comprehensive doctrines, unconstitutional amendments, and the basis of equality / Charles A. Kelbley -- A backdoor to policy making : the use of philosophers by the Supreme Court / Neomi Rao -- Does philosophy deserve a place at the Supreme Court? / Thom Brooks -- Immigration, association, and the family / Matthew Lister -- Political liberalism / Michael J. Sandel -- The subject of liberalism / Frank I. Michelman -- Some problems with public reason in John Rawls's Political liberalism / Kent Greenawalt -- Can a liberal take his own side in an argument? : the case for John Rawls's idea of political liberalism / Ronald C. Den Otter -- On belling the cat : Rawls and tort as corrective justice / Kevin A. Kordana and David H. Tabachnick -- Private order and public justice : Kant and Rawls / Arthur Ripstein -- Rawls and reparation / Martin D. Carcieri -- From Utopia to Kazanistan : John Rawls and the law of peoples / John Tasioulas -- The incoherence between Rawls's theories of justice / Thomas W. Pogge -- Why Rawls is not a cosmopolitan egalitarian / Leif Wenar -- Preventing military humanitarian intervention? : John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on a just global order / Regina Kreide -- Human rights and liberal toleration / David Reidy.

Contents: Introduction. Part I Shame and Expressivism: The expressive function of punishment, Joel Feinberg; Can shaming punishments educate?, Stephen P. Garvey. Part II Shame Punishment: What do alternative sanctions mean?, Dan M. Kahan; Shaming white-collar criminals: a proposal for reform of the federal sentencing guidelines, Dan M. Kahan and Eric A. Posner; Shame, guilt, and punishment, Raffaele Rodogno. Part III Restorative Justice and Shame Punishment: The family model of the criminal process: reintegrative shaming, John Braithwaite; Shame and guilt in restorative justice, Raffaele Rodogno. Part IV Dignity and Shame Punishment: Shaming citizens?, Martha C. Nussbaum; Shame on you, shame on me? Nussbaum on shame punishment, Thom Brooks. Part V Shame and Sexual Offenders: Examining sex offender community notification laws, Abril R. Bedarf; The use of 'shame' with sexual offenders, Anne-Marie McAlinden. Part VI Critics: Shame on you: an analysis of modern shame punishment as an alternative to incarceration, Aaron S. Book; Scarlet Letter punishment for juveniles: rehabilitation through humiliation?, Bonnie Mangum Braudway; What's really wrong with shaming sanctions, Dan M. Kahan; Wrong turns on the road to alternative sanctions: reflections on the future of shaming punishments and restorative justice, Dan Markel; Open justice or open season? Should the media report the names of suspects and defendants?, Michael Bohlander. Name index.

Hunting for the universal risk factor / Stephen Case and Kevin Haines -- Power and powerlessness in transition / Monica Barry -- Juvenile offenders / Thom Brooks -- The inextricable link between age and criminal history in sentencing / Shawn D. Bushway and Anne Morrison Piehl -- Deterrence as a principle of youth sentencing : no effect on youth but a significant effect on judges / Carla Cesaroni and Nicholas Bala -- Envisioning a juvenile justice system that supports positive youth development / James M. Frabutt, Kristen L. Di Luca and Kelly N. Graves -- Cruel and unusual punishment : mandatory sentencing of juveniles tried as adults without the possibility of youth as a mitigating factor / Alison Powers -- Pre-sentence reports, magisterial discourse and agency in the youth courts of England and Wales / Jo Phoenix -- Restorative justice -- is more better? : The experience of police-led restorative cautioning pilots in Northern Ireland / David O'Mahony and Jonathan Doak -- Juvenile victims in restorative justice : findings from the reintegrative shaming experiments / Tali Gal and Shomrom Moyal -- Restorative justice and youth justice in England and Wales : one step forward, two steps back / David O'Mahony.