03319nam 2200649Ia 450 991043834990332120200520144314.01-283-63418-X978661394663894-007-4845-010.1007/978-94-007-4845-3(CKB)2670000000257162(EBL)1030679(OCoLC)809543568(SSID)ssj0000745985(PQKBManifestationID)11433184(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000745985(PQKBWorkID)10859529(PQKB)10979240(DE-He213)978-94-007-4845-3(MiAaPQ)EBC1030679(PPN)16833917X(EXLCZ)99267000000025716220120602d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHonor and revenge a theory of punishment /Whitley R.P. Kaufman1st ed. 2013.Dordrecht ;New York Springerc20131 online resource (208 p.)Law and philosophy library,1572-4395 ;v. 104Description based upon print version of record.94-017-8475-2 94-007-4844-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.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.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.Law and Philosophy Library,2215-0315 ;104Theory of punishmentPunishment in crime deterrencePunishmentPhilosophyRetributionPunishment in crime deterrence.PunishmentPhilosophy.Retribution.364.601Kaufman Whitley R. P.1963-1449157MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438349903321Honor and revenge4196872UNINA