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Author | : Igor Primoratz |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 159102983X |
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While the philosophy of punishment is dominated by utilitarian and "mixed" theories, this study, written in the analytic tradition but also drawing on the views of Hegel, argues for a purely retributive view: all the main questions facing a theory of punishment are answered in terms of justice and desert, without any concessions to social expediency.
Author | : David Boonin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008-04-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139470787 |
Download The Problem of Punishment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not? Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by considering victim restitution as an alternative to punishment. Written in a clear and accessible style, The Problem of Punishment will be of interest to anyone looking for a critical introduction to the subject as well as to those already familiar with it.
Author | : Gregg D. Caruso |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108484700 |
Download Rejecting Retributivism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Caruso argues against retributivism and develops an alternative for addressing criminal behavior that is ethically defensible and practical.
Author | : Christopher Heath Wellman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019027476X |
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In Rights Forfeiture and Punishment, Christopher Heath Wellman argues that those who seek to defend the moral permissibility of punishment should shift their focus from general justifying aims to moral side constraints. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment.
Author | : George Schedler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Behavior modification |
ISBN | : |
Download The Justification of the Institution of Legal Punishment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edmund L. Pincoffs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edmund Lloyd Pincoffs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Punishment |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Whitley R.P. Kaufman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400748450 |
Download Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers. The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately. This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim. Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.
Author | : A. John Simmons |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691241856 |
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The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays collected here have been published in the highly respected journal Philosophy & Public Affairs. Taken together, they offer not only significant proposals for improving established theories of punishment and compelling arguments against long-held positions, but also ori-ginal and important answers to the question, "How is punishment to be justified?" Part I of this collection, "Justifications of Punishment," examines how any practice of punishment can be morally justified. Contributors include Jeffrie G. Murphy, Alan H. Goldman, Warren Quinn, C. S. Nino, and Jean Hampton. The papers in Part II, "Problems of Punishment," address more specific issues arising in established theories. The authors are Martha C. Nussbaum, Michael Davis, and A. John Simmons. In the final section, "Capital Punishment," contributors discuss the justifiability of capital punishment, one of the most debated philosophical topics of this century. Essayists include David A. Conway, Jeffrey H. Reiman, Stephen Nathanson, and Ernest van den Haag.
Author | : Hyman Gross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199644713 |
Download Crime and Punishment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery.