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Crime and punishment : a concise moral critique / Hyman Gross.
LIBRA HV7419 .G76 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Hyman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain--Philosophy.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--Philosophy.
- Punishment--Great Britain--Philosophy.
- Punishment.
- Punishment--United States--Philosophy.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain.
- Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 219 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Crime and Impunity 1
- 2 Sufficiently Good Reason 7
- 3 Taking Human Rights Seriously 18
- 4 Crimes as Pretexts for Improvement 28
- 5 Crimes as Demands for a Remedy 37
- 6 Punishment and Injustice 47
- 7 Crime, Harm, and Moral Wrong 55
- 8 Criminal Conduct and its Culpability 71
- 9 More about Culpability 85
- 10 Psychoculpability 99
- 11 Persons and Choices 113
- 12 Consoling Fictions 128
- 13 Guilt and Convictability 145
- 14 The Decline of Punishment 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199644711
- 0199644713
- OCLC:
- 751832042
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