Distributive principles of criminal law : who should be punished how much?

Distributive principles of criminal law : who should be punished how much? / Paul H. Robinson.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Paul H., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Punishment > Philosophy.
Criminal liability > Philosophy.
Crime prevention > Philosophy.
Distributive justice.
Crime prevention > Philosophy
Distributive justice
Punishment > Philosophy
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Table of 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.

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