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Retributivism has a past [electronic resource] : has it a future? / edited by Michael Tonry

Published:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 291 pages).
Additional Creators:
Tonry, Michael H.
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Can Twenty-first Century Punishment Policies Be Justified in Principle? / Michael Tonry -- 2.Is Twenty-first Century Punishment Post-desert? / Matt Matravers -- 3.What Does Wrongdoing Deserve? / John Kleinig -- 4.Responsibility, Restoration, and Retribution / R. A. Duff -- 5.Punishment and Desert-adjusted Utilitarianism / Jesper Ryberg -- 6.The Future of State Punishment: The Role of Public Opinion in Sentencing / Julian V. Roberts -- 7.A Political Theory of Imprisonment for Public Protection / Peter Ramsay -- 8.Terror as a Theory of Punishment / Alice Ristroph -- 9.Can Above-desert Penalties Be Justified by Competing Deontological Theories? / Richard S. Frase -- 10.Never Mind the Pain, It's a Measure! Justifying Measures as Part of the Dutch Bifurcated System of Sanctions / Jan W. de Keijser -- 11.Retributivism, Proportionality, and the Challenge of the Drug Court Movement / Douglas Husak -- 12.Drug Treatment Courts as Communicative Punishment / Michael M. O'Hear -- 13.Punishment Futures: The Desert-model Debate and the Importance of the Criminal Law Context / Andreas von Hirsch.
Summary:
A collection of essays by major figures in punishment theory law, and philosophy that reconsiders the popularity and prospects of retributivism, the notion that punishment is morally justified because people have behaved wrongly.
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ISBN:
9780199919376 (ebook)
0199919372 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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