Pardons : justice, mercy, and the public interest /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Kathleen Dean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, 1989.
Temas:
Pardon > United States.
Pardon.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I A Philosophical History of Punishment and Pardon
  • 1. Pardon Before the Enlightenment 15
  • 2. Eighteenth-Century Reactions Against Pardon 23
  • 3. The Utilitarians' Position 35
  • 4. The Nineteenth Century: Pardon and the Right to Punishment 46
  • 5. Pardon and the Rehabilitative Ideal 55
  • 6. The Retributivist Backlash 66
  • 7. Pardoning in Transition 79
  • II A Retributivist Theory of Pardon
  • 8. How a Retributivist Theory Can Justify Pardon 89
  • 9. Legalistic Retributivism 99
  • 10 Moralistic Retributivism 108
  • 11. Deserving Punishment and Deserving Pardon 122
  • 12. Justified Pardons: Innocence 131
  • 13. Justified Pardons: Excuses 142
  • 14. Justified Pardons: Justifications 155
  • 15. Justified Pardons: Adjustments to Sentences 166
  • III Applications, Both Practical and Theoretical
  • 16. How to Distinguish Forgiveness, Mercy, and Pardon 181
  • 17. How to Abuse the Pardoning Power 197
  • 18. How Presidential Pardoning Practices Should Be Changed 211.

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