Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: modern philosophies of punishment and the return to Aquinas
  • The problem with the utilitarian theory of punishment
  • The problem with modern retributivism
  • Foundations of the Thomistic theory of punishment
  • The moral basis of punishment: Aquinas's retributivism
  • Beyond retribution: punishing criminals in civil society
  • Capital punishment, evangelium vitae, and the Thomistic theory of punishment
  • Conclusion: Thomas Aquinas and modern theories of punishment.