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Distributive principles of criminal law : who should be punished, how much? / Paul H. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Paul H., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment--Philosophy.
- Punishment.
- Criminal liability--Philosophy.
- Criminal liability.
- Crime prevention--Philosophy.
- Crime prevention.
- Distributive justice.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 267p.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
- Summary:
- The rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a society's success in two of its most fundamental functions: doing justice and protecting citizens from crime. 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. He ultimately proposes a principle for distributing criminal liability and punishment that will be most likely to do justice and control crime. Paul Robinson is one of the world's leading criminal law experts. He has been writing about criminal liability and punishment issues for three decades, and has published dozens of influential articles in the best scholarly journals. This long-awaited volume is a brilliant synthesis of social science research and legal reasoning that brings together three decades of work in a compelling line of argument that addresses all of the important issues in assessing liability and punishment.
- 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 & weaknesses of alterative distributive principles
- Hybrid distributive principles
- A practical theory of justice : proposal for a hybrid distributive principle centered on empirical desert.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780199867684 : (ebk : OxfordScholarship)
- 9786612730931
- 9780199867684
- 0199867682
- 9781282730939
- 1282730932
- 9780190451165
- 0190451165
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