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Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment [electronic resource] / by Whitley R.P. Kaufman.

By: Kaufman, Whitley R.P [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Law and Philosophy Library: 104Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: VII, 203 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400748453.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Philosophy of law | Criminology | Philosophy | Philosophy of Law | Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History | Criminology & Criminal JusticeDDC classification: 340.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Chapter One: The Problem of Punishment.- Chapter Two: Punishment as Crime Prevention.- Chapter Three:  Can Retributive Punishment Be Justified? -- Chapter Four: The Mixed Theory of Punishment -- Chapter Five:  Retribution and Revenge -- Chapter Six: What Is The Purpose of Retribution? -- Chapter Seven: Making Sense of Honor.- Chapter Eight: Is Punishment Justified? -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment.   It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers.  The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately.  This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim.  Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.
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Chapter One: The Problem of Punishment.- Chapter Two: Punishment as Crime Prevention.- Chapter Three:  Can Retributive Punishment Be Justified? -- Chapter Four: The Mixed Theory of Punishment -- Chapter Five:  Retribution and Revenge -- Chapter Six: What Is The Purpose of Retribution? -- Chapter Seven: Making Sense of Honor.- Chapter Eight: Is Punishment Justified? -- Index.

This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment.   It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers.  The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately.  This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim.  Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.

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