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Retributivism : essays on theory and policy / edited by Mark D. White.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment--Philosophy.
- Punishment.
- Retribution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors offer analysis and explanations of new developments in retributivism, the philosophical account of punishment that holds that wrongdoers must be punished as a matter of right, duty, or justice, rather than deterrence, rehabilitation, or vengeance.
- Contents:
- "Retrieving retribution" / R.A. Duff
- "Punishment pluralism" / Michael T. Cahill
- "What might retributive justice be? : an argument for the confrontational conception of the retributivism" / Dan Markel
- "Retributive justice and social cooperation" / Gerald Gaus
- "Some second thoughts on retributivism" / Jeffrie G. Murphy
- "Kant, retributivism, and civic respect" / Sarah Holtman
- "Pro tanto retributivism : judgment and the balance of principles in criminal justice" / Mark D. White
- "Hegel on punishment : a more sophisticated retributivism" / Jane Johnson
- "Entrapment and retributive theory" / Mark Tunick
- "The choice of evils and the collisions of theory" / Marc DeGirolami
- "Retributive sentencing, multiple offenders, and bulk discounts" / Richard Lippke
- "Retribution and capital punishment" / Thom Brooks.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-989534-1
- 1-283-11630-8
- 9786613116307
- 0-19-987701-7
- OCLC:
- 729246868
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