Punishment The Supposed Justifications

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034927330

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Punishment: the Supposed Justifications by Ted Honderich Pdf

Ted Honderich's "Punishment" is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. With new chapters on determinism and responsibility, plus a new conclusion, the book also remains true to its original realism about almost all talk of retribution and proportionality. Honderich investigates all the commonsensical notions of why and when punishment is morally necessary, engaging with the language of public debate by politicians and other public figures. Honderich then puts forward his own argument that punishment is legitimate when it is in accord with the principle of humanity. Written in a clear, sharp style and seasoned with a dry wit, this is the most important work on the reasoning behind our penal systems. It is a pleasure to read for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. Ted Honderich is Grote Professor Emeritus at University College London and author of numerous books on philosophy, including "After the Terror" (Edinburgh University Press, 2002), "How Free Are You?" (Oxford University Press, 2001), " Terrorism for Humanity" (Pluto Press, 2003) and "Conservatism" (Pluto Press, 2005). He is also the editor of the Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745321313

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Punishment by Ted Honderich Pdf

Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. With new chapters on determinism and responsibility, plus a new conclusion, the book also remains true to its original realism about almost all talk of retribution and proportionality. Honderich investigates all the commonsensical notions of why and when punishment is morally necessary, engaging with the language of public debate by politicians and other public figures. Honderich then puts forward his own argument that punishment is legitimate when it is in accord with the principle of humanity. Written in a clear, sharp style and seasoned with a dry wit, this is the most important work on the reasoning behind our penal systems. It is a pleasure to read for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. Ted Honderich is Grote Professor Emeritus at University College London and author of numerous books on philosophy, including After the Terror (Edinburgh University Press, 2002), How Free Are You? (Oxford University Press, 2001), Terrorism for Humanity (Pluto Press, 2003) and Conservatism (Pluto Press, 2005). He is also the editor of the Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1435660757

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Punishment by Ted Honderich Pdf

In times of war, human rights violations often go unreported. In Israel and the Occupied Territories, where ongoing conflict has killed many thousands, abuses of human rights are commonplace, but these stories seldom reach the outside world. This book redresses that balance: taken from documents produced by international human rights groups - and assembled by the international journalist's organisation Reporters sans Frontieres - it provides an authoritative account of human rights violations that have taken place on both sides of the conflict since the start of the second Intifada in September 2000. These accounts of abuses and violations are careful not to overdramatise the story. Instead, they offer as objective an account as possible of the degradations that both Israelis and Palestinians have suffered. In this way the book provides an important assessment of the conflict's continuing impact on both communities.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492339326

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PunishmentTexte Imprimé by Ted Honderich Pdf

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044356819

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The Rationale of Punishment by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

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Author : Jan Willem de Keijser
Publisher : Rozenberg Pub
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9051705158

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Punishment and Purpose by Jan Willem de Keijser Pdf

The intricate practice of legal punishment is morally problematic and requires a consistent moral justification. This study considers the link between supposed justifications and goals and the actual practice of legal punishment. Is there a commonly share

Author : Whitley R.P. Kaufman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400748453

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Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment by Whitley R.P. Kaufman Pdf

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.​

Author : William Wilson
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841130620

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Central Issues in Criminal Theory by William Wilson Pdf

This book questions whether one of the tasks of criminal theory is to set goals and identify deficiencies in order to improve rules and procedures.

Author : Nicola Lacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134838011

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State Punishment by Nicola Lacey Pdf

Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishments in context of other political questions, such as the nature of political obligation and the function and scope of criminal law. Arguing that no convincing set of justifying reasons has so far been produced, she puts forward a theory of punishments which places the values of the community at its centre.

Author : Dr Leo Zaibert
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781409493129

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Punishment and Retribution by Dr Leo Zaibert Pdf

Discussions of punishment typically assume that punishment is criminal punishment carried out by the State. Punishment is, however, a richer phenomenon and it occurs in many contexts. This book contains a general account of punishment which overcomes the difficulties of competing accounts. Recognizing punishment's manifoldness is valuable not merely in contributing to conceptual clarity, but in that this recognition sheds light on the complicated problem of punishment's justification. Insofar as they narrowly presuppose that punishment is criminal punishment, most apparent solutions to the tension between consequentialism and retributivism are rather unenlightening if we attempt to apply them in other contexts. Moreover, this presupposition has given rise to an unwieldy variety of accounts of retributivism which are less helpful in contexts other than criminal punishment. Treating punishment comprehensibly helps us to better understand how it differs from similar phenomena, and to carry on the discussion of its justification fruitfully.

Author : Erik Claes,Wouter Devroe,Bert Keirsbilck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783540798569

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Facing the Limits of the Law by Erik Claes,Wouter Devroe,Bert Keirsbilck Pdf

Many legal experts no longer share an unbounded trust in the potential of law to govern society efficiently and responsibly. They often experience the 'limits of the law', as they are confronted with striking inadequacies in their legal toolbox, with inner inconsistencies of the law, with problems of enforcement and obedience, and with undesired side-effects, and so on. The contributors to this book engage in the challenging task of making sense of this experience. Against the background of broader cultural transformations (such as globalisation, new technologies, individualism and cultural diversity), they revisit a wide range of areas of the law and map different types of limits in relation to some basic functions and characteristics of the law. Additionally, they offer a set of strategies to manage justifiably law's limits, such as dedramatising law's limits, conceptual refinement ('constructivism'), striking the right balance between different functions of the law, seeking for complementarity between law and other social practices.

Author : Andreas von Hirsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509902675

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Deserved Criminal Sentences by Andreas von Hirsch Pdf

This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents. The desert model emphasises the degree of seriousness of the offender's crime in deciding the severity of his punishment, and has become increasingly influential in recent penal practice and scholarly debate. It explains why sentences should be based principally on crime-seriousness, and addresses, among other topics, how a desert-based penalty scheme can be constructed; how to gauge punishments' seriousness and penalties' severity; what weight should be given to an offender's previous convictions; how non-custodial sentences should be scaled; and what leeway there might be for taking other factors into account, such as an offender's need for treatment. The volume will be of interest to all those working in penal theory and practice, criminal sentencing and the criminal law more generally.

Author : Rudolph Joseph Gerber,Patrick D. McAnany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0268004870

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Contemporary Punishment by Rudolph Joseph Gerber,Patrick D. McAnany Pdf

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230250980

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The Rationale of Punishment by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... RATIONALE OF PUNISHMENT. BOOK III. OF PRIVATIVE PUNISHMENTS, OR FORFEITURES. CHAPTER I, PUNISHMENT ANALYZED. We now come to the last of the two grand divisions of Punishments--Privative Punishments, or Forfeitures. The word forfeiture is never used but with reference to some possession.* * As all our ideas are derived ultimately from the senses, almost all the names we have for intellectual ideas, seem to be derived ultimately from the names of such objects as afford sensible ideas: that is, of objects that belong to one or other of the three classes of real entities. Insomuch that, whether we perceive it or no, we can scarce express ourselves on any occasion but in metaphors. A most important discovery this in the metaphysical part of grammar, for which we seem to be indebted to M. d'Alembert. -- See his Melanges, tom. '1, Disc. Prelim. fyc. The way in which the import of the word forfeiture is connected with sensible ideas seems to be as follows: the words to forfeit come either immediately, or through the medium of the old French, from the modern Latin word forisfacere. Forts means out of doors, or out of the house; facere, is to make or to cause to be. The conceit then is that, when any object is in a man's possession, it is as it were within doors; within his house; any act, therefore, which, in consequence of some opetion of the law, has the effect of causing the object to be no longer in his possession, has the effect of causing it, as it were, to be out of his doors, and no longer within his house. Possessions are either substantial or ideal-- substantial when it is the object of a real entity (as a house, a field) ideal, when it is the object of a fictitious entity (as an office, a dignity, a right.) The difficulty of dealing...

Author : Rob Canton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350306059

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Why Punish? by Rob Canton Pdf

Why do we punish? Is it because only punishment can achieve justice for victims and 'right the wrong' of a crime? Or is it justified because it reduces crime, by deterring potential offenders, offering rehabilitative treatment to others and incapacitating the most dangerous? The complex answers to this enduring question vary across time and place, and are directly linked to people's personal, cultural, social, religious and ethical commitments and even their sense of identity. This unique introduction to the philosophy of punishment provides a systematic analysis of the themes of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation and restorative justice. Integrating philosophical, sociological, political and ethical perspectives, it provides a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of the purposes, meanings and justifications of punishment for crime and the extent to which punishment does, could or should live up to what it claims to achieve. Why Punish? challenges criminology and criminal justice students as well as policy makers, judges, magistrates and criminal justice practitioners to think more critically about the role of punishment and the moral principles that underpin it. Bridging abstract theory with the realities of practice, Rob Canton asks what better punishment would look like and how it can be achieved.