Description: Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Whitley R.P. Kaufman Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer, Netherlands Imprint: Springer ISBN-13: 9789400748446, 978-9400748446 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
Number of Pages: 204 Pages
Publication Name: Honor and Revenge: a Theory of Punishment
Language: English
Publisher: Springer
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Law, Criminology
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 489 g
Author: Whitley R.P. Kaufman
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Law and Philosophy Library
Format: Hardcover
