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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