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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Main Author: Kaufman, Whitley R.P. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 104
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4845-3