| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) |
| Contents |
Distributing criminal liability and punishment -- The need for an articulated distributive principle -- Does criminal law deter? -- Deterrence as a distributive principle -- Rehabilitation -- Incapacitation of the dangerous -- Competing conceptions of desert : vengeful, deontological, and empirical -- The utility of desert -- "Restorative justice" -- The strengths and weaknesses of alternative distributive principles -- Hybrid distributive principles -- A practical theory of justice : proposal for a hybrid distributive principle centered on empirical desert |
| Summary |
Drawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the social sciences, Paul Robinson describes the nature of the practical challenge in setting rational punishment principles, how past efforts have failed, and the alternatives that have been tried |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Philosophy
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Criminal liability -- Philosophy
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Crime prevention -- Philosophy
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Distributive justice.
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Crime prevention -- Philosophy
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Distributive justice
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Punishment -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199867684 |
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0199867682 |
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