Punishment, Communication, and Community

Name: Punishment, Communication, and Community
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ISBN: 9780195104295

ISBN-10: 0195104293

ISBN-13: 9780195104295

Edition: 2001

Authors: R. A. Duff

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The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing about punishment offers a variety of answers to that question-answers that try to make plausible sense of the idea that punishment is justified as being deserved for past crimes; answers that try to identify some beneficial consequences in terms of which punishment might be justified; as well as abolitionist answers telling us that we should seek to abolish, rather than to justify, criminal…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.100



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Consequentialists, Retributivists, and Abolitionists



Liberal Legal Community



Punishment, Communication, and Community



Communicative Sentencing



From Theory to Practice


Notes


References


Index