Punishment : the supposed justifications revisited /
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| Author / Creator: | Honderich, Ted. |
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006. |
| Description: | viii, 249 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6835992 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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 of Immunity
- Satisfactions-in-Acting
- 3. Grievance Satisfaction
- An Actual Reason
- System
- Defences and Criticisms
- 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
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
