Distributive principles of criminal law
Subtitle: who should be punished, how much?
By: Paul H. Robinson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780195365757
Subjects: Punishment -- Philosophy; Criminal liability -- Philosophy; Crime prevention -- Philosophy; Distributive justice
Description: Drawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the social sciences, Paul Robinson describes the nature of the practical challenge in setting rational punishment principles, how past efforts have failed and the alternatives that have been tried.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Distributing criminal liability and punishment; title: The need for an articulated distributive principle; title: Does criminal law deter?; title: Deterrence as a distributive principle; title: Rehabilitation; title: Incapacitation of the dangerous; title: Competing conceptions of desert : vengeful, deontological, and empirical; title: The utility of desert; title: Restorative justice; title: The strengths & weaknesses of alterative distributive principles; title: Hybrid distributive principles; title: A practical theory of justice : proposal for a hybrid distributive principle centered on empirical desert.