Crime and punishment a concise moral critique /
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Author / Creator: | Gross, Hyman. |
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Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 219 p.) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9277267 |
ISBN: | 9780191738944 (ebook) : No price 0191738948 (ebook) : No price |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. |
Summary: | Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery. |
Other form: | Print version 9780199644711 |
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