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  title info:
    title: Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
  name:
    name part: Kaufman, Whitley R.P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 204 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers. The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately. This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim. Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.
  table of contents: Chapter One: The Problem of Punishment.- Chapter Two: Punishment as Crime Prevention.- Chapter Three: Can Retributive Punishment Be Justified? -- Chapter Four: The Mixed Theory of Punishment -- Chapter Five: Retribution and Revenge -- Chapter Six: What Is The Purpose of Retribution? -- Chapter Seven: Making Sense of Honor.- Chapter Eight: Is Punishment Justified? -- Index.
  note: by Whitley R.P. Kaufman.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Law
  subject:
    topic: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
  subject:
    topic: Criminology & Criminal Justice
  classification: B65
  classification: 340.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Law and Philosophy Library, 104
  identifier: 9789400748453
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4845-3
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