Trials and Punishments

Klappentext This book discusses whether a system of criminal punishment can be justified within our legal system. Zusammenfassung How can a system of criminal punishment be justified? In particular can it be justified if the moral demand that we respect each other as autonomous moral agents is taken seriously? The conclusion is pessimistic: punishment cannot be justified within our legal system; and this gap between the ideal and the actual presents us with serious moral dilemmas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. On being fit to be tried and punished; 2. Criticism, blame and moral punishment; 3. The law's demands; 4. Trial and verdict; 5. Trial and punishment; 6. Consequentialist punishments; 7. Varieties of retributivitism; 8. Punishment, fairness and rights; 9. Expression, penance and reform; 10. The ideal and the actual; Bibliography; Indices.

Product details

• Authors: Antony Duff, R. A. Duff, R.A. Duff
• Assisted by: Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521407618
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40761-8
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous