Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment

Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment by Whitley R.P. Kaufman.

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...

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Main Author: Kaufman, Whitley R.P (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 104
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Subjects:
Political science.
Law—Philosophy.
Law.
Criminology.
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