The Case Against Punishment : Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law /

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What ends do we expect and hope to serve in punishing criminal wrongdoers? Does the punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In The Case against Punishment, Deirdre Golash addresses these and other questions about the value of punishment in contemporary society. Drawing o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golash, Deirdre (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]
Temas:
Punishment.
LAW / General.
This.
argues.
book.
criminal.
done.
harm.
morally.
offenders.
punishing.
that.
ultimately.
unjustified.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 An Institution in Search of Moral Grounding
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Harms Done by Punishment
  • III. Justifying the Harm of Punishment
  • 2 Does Punishment Do More Good than Harm?
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Crime-Preventive Effects of Punishment
  • III. Consideration of Alternatives
  • IV. Theoretical Objections
  • V. Conclusion
  • 3 Preserving the Moral Order
  • I. Hegel
  • II. Punishment as Vindicating Victims
  • III. Punishment as Expressing Justified Anger
  • 4 Retribution and Social Choice
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Pure Retributivism
  • III. Retributive Punishment as Promoting Social Control
  • IV. Restitution
  • V. Conclusion
  • 5 Punishment as Self-Defense
  • I. Introduction
  • II. What Justifies Self-Defense?
  • III. Conclusion
  • 6 Punishment as Communication
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Moral Reform Theories
  • III. Paternalism
  • IV. Nonpaternalistic Goals
  • V. Aiming at the Good of the Offender
  • VI. Restoring Relationships
  • VII. Moral Reform in an Ideal Society
  • VIII. Conclusion
  • 7 Is Punishment Justified?
  • I. Crime Prevention: Doing Good by Doing Harm
  • II. Harming Offenders as Good in Itself
  • III. Harming Offenders for Their Own Moral Good
  • IV. Conclusion
  • 8 What if Punishment Is Not Justified?
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Crime Prevention
  • III. Responding to Unprevented Crimes
  • IV. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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