Retributivism
Subtitle: essays on theory and policy
By: edited by Mark D. White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780199752232
Subjects: Retribution; Philosophy; Punishment
Description: The contributors offer analysis and explanations of new developments in retributivism, the philosophical account of punishment that holds that wrongdoers must be punished as a matter of right, duty, or justice, rather than deterrence, rehabilitation, or vengeance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Retrieving retribution" / R.A. Duff; title: "Punishment pluralism" / Michael T. Cahill; title: "What might retributive justice be? : an argument for the confrontational conception of the retributivism" / Dan Markel; title: "Retributive justice and social cooperation" / Gerald Gaus; title: "Some second thoughts on retributivism" / Jeffrie G. Murphy; title: "Kant, retributivism, and civic respect" / Sarah Holtman; title: "Pro tanto retributivism : judgment and the balance of principles in criminal justice" / Mark D. White; title: "Hegel on punishment : a more sophisticated retributivism" / Jane Johnson; title: "Entrapment and retributive theory" / Mark Tunick; title: "The choice of evils and the collisions of theory" / Marc DeGirolami; title: "Retributive sentencing, multiple offenders, and bulk discounts" / Richard Lippke; title: "Retribution and capital punishment" / Thom Brooks.