Law, Ideology and Punishment Retrieval and Critique of the Liberal Ideal of Criminal Justice

Law, Ideology and Punishment Retrieval and Critique of the Liberal Ideal of Criminal Justice / by A.W. Norrie.

This book is about 'Kantianism' in both a narrow and a broad sense. In the former, it is about the tracing of the development of the retributive philosophy of punishment into and beyond its classical phase in the work of a number of philosophers, one of the most prominent of whom is Kant....

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Main Author: Norrie, A.W (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991.
Edition:1st ed. 1991.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 12
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Political science.
Law—Philosophy.
Law.
Criminal law.
Criminology.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Law, Ideology and Punishment
  • 1. Introduction: Critique and Retrieval of the Liberal Ideal of Criminal Justice
  • 2. Between Appearance and Reality: the Contradictions of Legal Ideology
  • 3. Juridical Ideology and the Philosophy of Punishment
  • II. The Birth of Juridical Individualism: Hobbes and the Philosophy of Punishment
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contradiction in the Hobbesian Philosophy of Punishment
  • 3. Hobbes’s Juridical Individualism
  • 4. Hobbes and the Historical Development of the Philosophy of Punishment
  • 5. Conclusion
  • III. Purifying Juridical Individualism: Kant’s Retributivism
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Metaphysical Basis of Punishment
  • 3. ‘A Theory Built on Tension’
  • 4. Conclusion: Kant’s Juridical Individualism
  • IV. Rationalising Juridical Individualism — and the Rise of ‘the Irrational’: Hegel
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Hegelian Justification of Punishment
  • 3.‘From the Point of View of Abstract Right’
  • 4. Reason, Reality and the Irruption of ‘the Irrational’
  • 5. Conclusion
  • V. Abstract Right and the Socialisation of Wrong: Retributivism’s English Decline and Fall
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Revising the Classical Tradition:T.H.Green
  • 3. Revising the Classical Tradition: Bradley and Bosanquet
  • 4. Conclusion
  • VI. Juridical Individualism and State Power: Utilitarianism in the Twentieth Century
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2.The Triumph of Utilitarianism
  • 3. Utilitarianism and Individual Right
  • 4. Conclusion
  • VII. Juridical Individualism, Individual Freedom And Criminal Justice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Defending Freewill
  • 3. Freewill, Determinism and Criminal Justice
  • 4. Conclusion
  • VIII. Juridical individualism, State Power And Legal Reasoning
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal Reasoning and Criminal Responsibility
  • 3. Speaking the Language of Law
  • 4. Conclusion
  • IX. The Limits of Legal Ideology
  • 1. The Philosophical — Historical Development of the Liberal Ideal of Criminal Punishment
  • 2. The Return to Kant
  • 3. The Ideal and the Actual.

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