Corporal punishment : a humane alternative to incarceration / / Kevin J. Murtagh

• Autore: Murtagh Kevin J. <1980->
• Pubblicazione: El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.67
• Soggetto topico: Corporal punishment; Criminal justice, Administration of
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Decline of Corporal Punishment and the Rise of Imprisonment; Problems with (Mass) Imprisonment; Why Consider Corporal Punishment?; Saving the Phenomena; Structure of the Book; CHAPTER 1: Preliminaries; What is Corporal Punishment?; Theses; Framework and Assumptions; Methods Under Consideration; Pragmatic Concerns about Electric Shock Punishment; Corporal Punishment is Not (Necessarily) Torture; CHAPTER 2: Pain, Suffering, and Deprivation; Pain vs. Suffering; The Depth of Psychological Suffering; Hurting vs. Depriving ; Liberty, Autonomy, and the Inevitability of Suffering Deprivation, Suffering, and Double Effect; CHAPTER 3: Cruelty and Inhumaneness; What is Cruelty?; What is Inhumaneness?; Why Corporal Punishment is Not Necessarily Cruel or Inhumane; Why Corporal Punishment can be Especially Humane; CHAPTER 4: Degradingness and Inhumanity; What is Degradingness?; What is Inhumanity?; Objections from Degradingness; The Problem of Address; The Problem of Reduction; Corporal Punishment and the Dignity of Persons; CHAPTER 5: Some Remaining Issues; Humiliation; Bodily Integrity; Closing Remarks; Bibliography ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In contemporary Western societies, the corporal punishment of criminals is generally assumed to be morally wrong. Murtagh, however, argues against this common assumption and attempts to demonstrate that certain forms of corporal punishment are morally permissible. In addition, he claims that these punishments are morally superior to many currently popular forms of punishment, especially imprisonment, and defends corporal punishment against objections that claim it to be cruel, inhumane, inhuman, and degrading. Substantial suffering is inevitable with any severe punishment, and Murtagh offers r
• Titolo autorizzato: Corporal punishment
• ISBN: 1-59332-612-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821181703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship