Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Law and Philosophy Library,
104 |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4845-3 |