Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment

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.¿

Verwandte Artikel

Download
PDF
Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment Whitley R.P. Kaufman

96,29 €*
Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment Kaufman, Whitley R. P.

96,29 €*

Weitere Produkte vom selben Autor

Beyond Legal Positivism Kaufman, Whitley R. P.

149,79 €*
Human Nature and the Limits of Darwinism Kaufman, Whitley R. P.

53,49 €*
Human Nature and the Limits of Darwinism Kaufman, Whitley R. P.

53,49 €*
Justified Killing Kaufman, Whitley R. P.

137,90 €*