Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment

• Main Author: Kaufman, Whitley R.P (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 104
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Criminology.; Philosophy of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment.   It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a...