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100 1 _aKaufman, Whitley R.P.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHonor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Whitley R.P. Kaufman.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aVII, 203 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aLaw and Philosophy Library,
_x1572-4395 ;
_v104
505 0 _aChapter 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aPhilosophy of law.
650 0 _aCriminology.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Law.
650 2 4 _aTheories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
650 2 4 _aCriminology & Criminal Justice.
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830 0 _aLaw and Philosophy Library,
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