Crime and Punishment - A Concise Moral Critique

Zusatztext ...his arguments are thought-provoking and worthwhile. Informationen zum Autor Hyman Gross is the sometime Arthur Goodhart Professor of Legal Science and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1: Crime and Impunity 2: Sufficiently Good Reason 3: Taking Human Rights Seriously 4: Crimes as Pretexts for Improvement 5: Crimes as Demands for a Remedy 6: Punishment and Injustice 7: Crime, Harm, and Moral Wrong 8: Criminal Conduct and Its Culpability 9: More About Culpability 10: Psychoculpability 11: Persons and Choices 12: Consoling Fictions 13: Guilt and Convictability 14: The Decline of Punishment Postscript: Reconceiving Response to Crime Notes Some Further References

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• Authors: Hyman Gross, Hyman (sometime Arthur Goodhart Professor of Legal Science and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College Gross, Gross Hyman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199644711
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964471-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminal justice law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law