Crime and punishment
Subtitle: a concise moral critique
By: Hyman Gross
Series: Oxford scholarship online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780191738944
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Philosophy; Punishment
Description: Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.