Penal Censure - Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory

This exploration of penal censure is inspired by the 40th anniversary of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch''s Doing Justice , which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment that eventually led von Hirsch to ground his proposed model of desert-based sentencing on the notion of penal censure. Von Hirsch''s work thus provides an obvious starting-point for an exploration of the importance of censure for the justification of punishment, both within his theory of just deserts and from the perspectives of other theoretical approaches. It also provides an opportunity for engaging with censure more broadly from philosophical, sociological-anthropological and individual-psychological perspectives. The essays in this collection map the conceptual territory of censure from these different perspectives, address issues for desert theory that arise from fuller understandings of censure, and consider afresh the role of censure within the jurisprudence of punishment. They show that analyses of censure from different vantage points can significantly enrich punishment theory, not least by providing a conceptual basis for perceiving common ground between and thus connecting different strands of penal theory.>

About the author

Antje du Bois-Pedain is Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology, and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.

Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.
Anthony E Bottoms is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: Antje Du Bois-Pedain, Anthony E Bottoms
• Assisted by: Antje Du Bois-Pedain (Editor), Bois-Pedain Antje du (Editor), Anthony E Bottoms (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9781509945672
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-4567-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Comparative, comparative law, Legal aspects of criminology, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: procedure and offences