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UNINA9910438349903321 |
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Autore |
Kaufman Whitley R. P. <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Honor and revenge : a theory of punishment / / Whitley R.P. Kaufman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-63418-X |
9786613946638 |
94-007-4845-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Collana |
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Law and philosophy library, , 1572-4395 ; ; v. 104 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Punishment in crime deterrence |
Punishment - Philosophy |
Retribution |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter One: The Problem of Punishment.- Chapter Two: Punishment as Crime Prevention.- Chapter Three: Can Retributive Punishment Be Justified? -- Chapter Four: The Mixed Theory of Punishment -- Chapter Five: Retribution and Revenge -- Chapter Six: What Is The Purpose of Retribution? -- Chapter Seven: Making Sense of Honor.- Chapter Eight: Is Punishment Justified? -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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