Punishment : : A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader /

Punishment : : A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader / / ed. by A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen, Charles R. Beitz.

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...

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HerausgeberIn:
Beitz, Charles R.,
Cohen, Joshua,
Cohen, Marshall,
Simmons, A. John,
MitwirkendeR:
Conway, David,
Davis, Michael,
Goldman, Alan,
Haag, Ernest,
Hampton, Jean,
Murphy, Jeffrie,
Nathanson, Stephen,
Nino, C.,
Nussbaum, Martha,
Quinn, Warren,
Reiman, Jeffrey,
Simmons, A.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1995
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
  • Marxism and Retribution
  • The Paradox of Punishment
  • The Right to Threaten and the Right to Punish
  • A Consensual Theory of Punishment
  • The Moral Education Theory of Punishment
  • PART II. PROBLEMS OF PUNISHMENT
  • Equity and Mercy
  • Harm and Retribution
  • Locke and the Right to Punish
  • PART III. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
  • Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Some Considerations in Dialogue Form
  • Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty: Answering van den Haag
  • Does It Matter if the Death Penalty Is Arbitrarily Administered?
  • Refuting Reiman and Nathanson

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