Punishment, Communication, and Community (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 18, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780195166668
First sentence: THE PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENT HAS LONG BEEN A BATTLEGROUND FOR various versions of consequentialism (whose central slogan is that punishment can be justified only if it brings some consequential good) and retributivism (whose central slogan is that punishment can be justified only as being deserved).