Author

Publication

2003-04-18 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

66,500 words, Guess

Page Count

266 pages

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Classifications

  • LCC

First Sentence

THE PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENT HAS LONG BEEN A BATTLEGROUND FOR various versions of consequentialism (whose central slogan is that punishment can be justified only if it brings some consequential good) and retributivism (whose central slogan is that punishment can be justified only as being deserved).

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Other Editions

  • Punishment, Communication, and Community (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)Oxford University Press, USA2003-04-18

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