Crime and punishment : a concise moral critique /

Crime and punishment : a concise moral critique /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gross, Hyman.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Description:	xv, 219 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Philosophy. Punishment -- Great Britain -- Philosophy. Punishment -- United States -- Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain. Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Philosophy. Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects. Punishment -- Philosophy. Great Britain. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8743449

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ISBN:	9780199644711 0199644713
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Crime and Impunity
2. Sufficiently Good Reason
3. Taking Human Rights Seriously
4. Crimes as Pretexts for Improvement
5. Crimes as Demands for a Remedy
6. Punishment and Injustice
7. Crime, Harm, and Moral Wrong
8. Criminal Conduct and its Culpability
9. More about Culpability
10. Psychoculpability
11. Persons and Choices
12. Consoling Fictions
13. Guilt and Convictability
14. The Decline of Punishment
Postscript: Reconceiving Response to Crime
Notes
Some Further References
Index