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Punishment : the supposed justifications revisited / Ted Honderich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781435660755
  • 1435660757
  • 9781849644822
  • 1849644829
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Punishment.DDC classification:
  • 364.601 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8675 .H65 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Problem and definition. The need to justify punishment -- The definition of punishment -- 2. Backward-looking theories. Retribution theories in general -- Legal, circular, and intrinsic-good retributivism -- Distress-culpability, forfeited rights, indifference -- Innocence system -- Annulment, offenders' rights -- Rational contract -- Consent to loss on immunity -- Satisfactions-in-acting -- 3. Grievance satisfaction. An actual reason -- System -- Defences and criticism -- 4. Utilitarian prevention theory, etc. Questions of fact about prevention -- The utilitarian prevention theory -- The victimization objection -- Utilitarians on victimization -- Justified and unjustified victimizations -- Retrospect and conclusion -- 5. Reform, rehabilitation, treatment. Punishment as reformative -- Illness and treatment -- Objections -- 6. Determinism. Punishment, freedom, responsibility -- A sketch of determinism -- Determinism despite quantum theory -- Compatibilism and incompatibilism -- Attitudinism -- Arguments for compatibilism and incompatibilism -- The real consequences of determinism -- Punishment -- 7. Compromise theories. Retrospect, separate questions -- Prevention and retribution -- Correct-values retributivism -- Liberal-community retributivism -- 8. Non-problem, other conclusions. The end of all retributivism -- The decent society -- The principle of humanity -- Our societies -- Our unjustified punishments.
Summary: -- A classic book transformed by a philosopher at his strongest --Reviews of the first edition:'Painstaking, comprehensive and unimpassioned.' Anthony Kenny, New Statesman'Bold, tough, direct style ... a pleasure to read.' Mary Warnock, Times Literary Sup.
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Previous edition: Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

1. Problem and definition. The need to justify punishment -- The definition of punishment -- 2. Backward-looking theories. Retribution theories in general -- Legal, circular, and intrinsic-good retributivism -- Distress-culpability, forfeited rights, indifference -- Innocence system -- Annulment, offenders' rights -- Rational contract -- Consent to loss on immunity -- Satisfactions-in-acting -- 3. Grievance satisfaction. An actual reason -- System -- Defences and criticism -- 4. Utilitarian prevention theory, etc. Questions of fact about prevention -- The utilitarian prevention theory -- The victimization objection -- Utilitarians on victimization -- Justified and unjustified victimizations -- Retrospect and conclusion -- 5. Reform, rehabilitation, treatment. Punishment as reformative -- Illness and treatment -- Objections -- 6. Determinism. Punishment, freedom, responsibility -- A sketch of determinism -- Determinism despite quantum theory -- Compatibilism and incompatibilism -- Attitudinism -- Arguments for compatibilism and incompatibilism -- The real consequences of determinism -- Punishment -- 7. Compromise theories. Retrospect, separate questions -- Prevention and retribution -- Correct-values retributivism -- Liberal-community retributivism -- 8. Non-problem, other conclusions. The end of all retributivism -- The decent society -- The principle of humanity -- Our societies -- Our unjustified punishments.

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-- A classic book transformed by a philosopher at his strongest --Reviews of the first edition:'Painstaking, comprehensive and unimpassioned.' Anthony Kenny, New Statesman'Bold, tough, direct style ... a pleasure to read.' Mary Warnock, Times Literary Sup.

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