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Punishment : the supposed justifications revisited
- Title
- Punishment : the supposed justifications revisited / Ted Honderich.
- Author
- Honderich, Ted.
- Publication
- London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- viii, 249 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Previous ed.: Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Problem and definition -- The need to justify punishment -- The definition of punishment -- 2. Backward-looking theories -- Retribution theories in general -- Legal, circular, and intrinsic-good retributivism -- Distress-culpability, forfeited rights, indifference -- Innocence system -- Annulment, offenders' rights -- Rational contract -- Consent to loss on immunity -- Satisfactions-in-acting -- 3. Grievance satisfaction -- An actual reason -- System -- Defences and criticism -- 4. Utilitarian prevention theory, etc. -- Questions of fact about prevention -- The utilitarian prevention theory -- The victimization objection -- Utilitarians on victimization -- Justified and unjustified victimizations -- Retrospect and conclusion -- 5. Reform, rehabilitation, treatment -- Punishment as reformative -- Illness and treatment -- Objections -- 6. Determinism -- Punishment, freedom, responsibility -- A sketch of determinism -- Determinism despite quantum theory -- Compatibilism and incompatibilism -- Attitudinism -- Arguments for compatibilism and incompatibilism -- The real consequences of determinism -- Punishment -- 7. Compromise theories -- Retrospect, separate questions -- Prevention and retribution -- Correct-values retributivism -- Liberal-community retributivism -- 8. Non-problem, other conclusions -- The end of all retributivism -- The decent society -- The principle of humanity -- Our societies -- Our unjustified punishments.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-13131
- ISBN
- 0745321321 (hbk.)
- 0745321313 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006273455
- OCLC
- 61425518
- Author
- Honderich, Ted.
- Title
- Punishment : the supposed justifications revisited / Ted Honderich.
- Imprint
- London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006.
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-13131