Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
Autor: | Kaufman, Whitley R. P. |
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EAN: | 9789400748446 |
Sachgruppe: | Philosophie Recht |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 212 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 28.08.2012 |
Schlagworte: | Kriminologie Philosophie / Recht Rechtsphilosophie |
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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.¿