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...

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.