The Problem Of Punishment

Author : David Boonin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521883164

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In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by considering victim restitution as an alternative to punishment. Written in a clear and accessible style, The Problem of Punishment will be of interest to anyone looking for a critical introduction to the subject as well as to those already familiar with it.

Author : David Boonin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015077638602

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Author : Whitley R.P. Kaufman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Arthur Shuster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442647282

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Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy by Arthur Shuster Pdf

In Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy, Arthur Shuster offers an insightful study of punishment in the works of Plato, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Kant, and Foucault.

Author : Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554810550

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The Immorality of Punishment by Michael J. Zimmerman Pdf

In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally repugnant, no matter how vile the behaviour that is its target. Despite the fact that it may be difficult to imagine a state functioning at all, let alone well, without having recourse to punishing those who break its laws, Zimmerman makes a timely and compelling case for the view that we must seek and put into practice alternative means of preventing crime and promoting social stability.

Author : Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190274764

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Rights Forfeiture and Punishment by Christopher Heath Wellman Pdf

In Rights Forfeiture and Punishment, Christopher Heath Wellman argues that those who seek to defend the moral permissibility of punishment should shift their focus from general justifying aims to moral side constraints. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291

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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Pdf

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Author : David Boonin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0511388330

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Written in a clear and accessible style, The Problem of Punishment will be of interest both to anyone looking for a critical introduction to the subject and to anyone who is already familiar with it."--Jacket.

Author : Leo Zaibert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108676601

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Rethinking Punishment by Leo Zaibert Pdf

The age-old debate about what constitutes just punishment has become deadlocked. Retributivists continue to privilege desert over all else, and consequentialists continue to privilege punishment's expected positive consequences, such as deterrence or rehabilitation, over all else. In this important intervention into the debate, Leo Zaibert argues that despite some obvious differences, these traditional positions are structurally very similar, and that the deadlock between them stems from the fact they both oversimplify the problem of punishment. Proponents of these positions pay insufficient attention to the conflicts of values that punishment, even when justified, generates. Mobilizing recent developments in moral philosophy, Zaibert offers a properly pluralistic justification of punishment that is necessarily more complex than its traditional counterparts. An understanding of this complexity should promote a more cautious approach to inflicting punishment on individual wrongdoers and to developing punitive policies and institutions.

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : 0691029555

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Punishment by A. John Simmons Pdf

The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays collected here have been published in the highly respected journal Philosophy & Public Affairs. Taken together, they offer not only significant proposals for improving established theories of punishment and compelling arguments against long-held positions, but also ori-ginal and important answers to the question, "How is punishment to be justified?" Part I of this collection, "Justifications of Punishment," examines how any practice of punishment can be morally justified. Contributors include Jeffrie G. Murphy, Alan H. Goldman, Warren Quinn, C. S. Nino, and Jean Hampton. The papers in Part II, "Problems of Punishment," address more specific issues arising in established theories. The authors are Martha C. Nussbaum, Michael Davis, and A. John Simmons. In the final section, "Capital Punishment," contributors discuss the justifiability of capital punishment, one of the most debated philosophical topics of this century. Essayists include David A. Conway, Jeffrey H. Reiman, Stephen Nathanson, and Ernest van den Haag.

Author : Graeme R. Newman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412832533

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The Punishment Response by Graeme R. Newman Pdf

Author : Keally McBride
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472069829

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Punishment and Political Order by Keally McBride Pdf

An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Author : C. L. Ten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of.
ISBN : 0198750811

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Crime, Guilt, and Punishment by C. L. Ten Pdf

Considering philosophical theories of punishment in light of both abstract arguments and factual evidence about the effects of punishing offenders, this book links the moral justification of punishment by the state to more general issues concerning the nature of moral disagreements and our obligations to obey the law. Ten applies his discussion to problems in the punishment of a variety of offenders--the dangerously mentally ill, Nazi war criminals, "negligent" drivers, rapists, and others--and considers several related questions about crime and punishment.

Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Behaviorism (Psychology).
ISBN : UCSC:32106015812255

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Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn Pdf

Criticizes the system of motivating through reward, offering arguments for motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them.