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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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| Verlag | Springer Netherland |
| Ersterscheinung | 21. September 2014 |
| Maße | 23.5 cm x 15.5 cm |
| Gewicht | 330 Gramm |
| Format | Softcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9789401784757 |
| Auflage | 2013 |
| Seiten | 204 |
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