Honor and revenge : a theory of punishment / / Whitley R.P. Kaufman
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, c2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.601 |
| Soggetto topico: | Punishment in crime deterrence |
| Punishment - Philosophy | |
| Retribution | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Theory of punishment |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Honor and revenge |
| ISBN: | 1-283-63418-X |
| 9786613946638 | |
| 94-007-4845-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910438349903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Law and Philosophy Library, . 2215-0315 ; ; 104