Punishment, Communication, and Community (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780195104295
Subjects: Criminal law; Penology & punishment; Criminal Justice Administration; Criminology Theory; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Criminal Procedure; Penology; Law / Criminal Procedure; Community; Criminal justice, Administrati; Criminal justice, Administration of; Philosophy; Punishment; Sentences (Criminal procedure)
First sentence: THE PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENT HAS LONG BEEN A BATTLEGROUND FOR various version 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).