The Problem of Punishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Punishment write by David Boonin. This book was released on 2008-04-14. The Problem of Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not? Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by considering victim restitution as an alternative to punishment. Written in a clear and accessible style, The Problem of Punishment will be of interest to anyone looking for a critical introduction to the subject as well as to those already familiar with it.
The Problem of Punishment
The Problem of Punishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Punishment write by David Boonin. This book was released on 2014-05-14. The Problem of Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in a clear and accessible style, The Problem of Punishment will be of interest both to anyone looking for a critical introduction to the subject and to anyone who is already familiar with it."--Jacket.
The Problem of Punishment
The Problem of Punishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Punishment write by David Boonin. This book was released on 2008-04-14. The Problem of Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
The Immorality of Punishment
The Immorality of Punishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immorality of Punishment write by Michael J. Zimmerman. This book was released on 2011-04-20. The Immorality of Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally repugnant, no matter how vile the behaviour that is its target. Despite the fact that it may be difficult to imagine a state functioning at all, let alone well, without having recourse to punishing those who break its laws, Zimmerman makes a timely and compelling case for the view that we must seek and put into practice alternative means of preventing crime and promoting social stability.
Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment write by Whitley R.P. Kaufman. This book was released on 2012-08-28. Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers. The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately. This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim. Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.
