How can the brutal and costly enterprise of criminal punishment be justified? This text makes a contribution to the philosophical literature and debate on the morality of punishing, arguing that punishment is justified in the duties that offenders incur as a result of their wron…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the distinction between punishment and vengeance-punishment being the measured use of legally sanctioned violence and vengea…
Within the criminal justice system one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment, both historically and currently, is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that, absent any excusing conditions, wrongdoers are morally responsib…
"This is an updated edition of a classic critique of prisons and imprisonment, discussing the modern trend towards locking-up ever more people and distilling the arguments for and against incarceration. This edition contains all the material from earlier editions as well as new …
