Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
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...
| Main Author: | Kaufman, Whitley R.P (Author) |
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| Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Law and Philosophy Library,
104 |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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