| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Law and philosophy library, 1572-4395 ; v. 104 |
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Law and philosophy library ; v. 104.
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| Contents |
The Problem of Punishment -- Punishment as Crime Prevention -- Can Retributive Punishment Be Justified? -- The Mixed Theory of Punishment -- Retribution and Revenge -- What Is the Purpose of Retribution? -- Making Sense of Honor -- Is Punishment Justified? |
| Summary |
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? |
| Analysis |
Philosophy of law |
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Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History |
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Criminology & Criminal Justice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Punishment -- Philosophy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Punishment -- Philosophy
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Rechtsphilosophie
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Kriminologie
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Rechtsfilosofie.
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Straffen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789400748453 |
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9400748450 |
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9400748442 |
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9789400748446 |
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