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The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment

The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3031118731
ISBN13: 9783031118739
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 24 2023
Pages: 805
Weight: 2.92
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field's leading scholars.

Key features

  • Presents a history of punishment theory from ancient times to the present.
  • Evaluates the main proposed justifications of punishment, including retributivism, general and specific deterrence theories, mixed theories, expressivism, societal-defense theory, fair play theory, rights forfeiture theory, and the public health-quarantine model.
  • Discusses sentencing, proportionality, policing, prosecution, and the role punishment plays in the context of the state.
  • Examines advances in neuroscience and debates about whether free will skepticism undermines the justifiability of punishment.
  • Considers forgiveness, restorative justice, and calls to abolish punishment.
  • Addresses pressing social issues such as mass incarceration, juvenile justice, punitive torture, the death penalty, and cruel and unusual punishment.

Also from

Altman, Matthew C.

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