Justice and Punishment The Rationale of Coercion

Name: Justice and Punishment The Rationale of Coercion
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ISBN: 9780198295730

ISBN-10: 0198295731

ISBN-13: 9780198295730

Edition: 2000

Authors: Matt Matravers

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This book aims to answer the question: 'why, and by what right do some people punish others?' The author argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a substantive political and moral theory. Matravers questions why it is that recent theories of distributive justice have had so little to say about the punishment and retributive justice. His answer is that contemporary theories of justice cannot explain the relationship of justice and morality more broadly conceived. As this is also the relationship that a theory of punishment needs to explain, it is in examining the problem of punishment that the limitations of contemporary theories of justice are most starkly exposed.…

Book details

List price: $93.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/5/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



justice And Punishment


Justice and Punishment


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Consequentialism



Retributivism I: Fair Play Theory



Retributivism Ii: Resentment, Guilt, and Censure



The Scope of Impartial Justice



Impartial Justice, Motivation, and Punishment



Justice as Mutual Advantage



Self-Interest and the Commitment to Morality



A Constructivist Theory of Moral Norms



The Moral Community, Justified Coercion, and Punishment


References


Index