Punishment, communication, and community
By: R.A. Duff
Series: Studies in crime and public policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Punishment -- Philosophy; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Philosophy; Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Philosophy; Communities -- Philosophy
Description: "This book begins with a critical survey of recent trends in penal theory, but goes on to develop an original account (based on Duff's earlier Trials and Punishments) of criminal punishment as a mode of moral communication, aimed at inducing repentance, reform, and reconciliation through reparation - an account that undercuts the traditional controversies between consequentialist and retributivist penal theories, and that shows how abolitionist concerns can properly be met by a system of communicative punishments."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index