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ISBN-10 : 303111874X
ISBN-13 : 9783031118746
Author: Matthew C. Altman
This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field’s leading scholars. Key features Presents a history of punishment theory from ancient times to the present. Evaluates the main proposed justifications of punishment, including retributivism, general and specific deterrence theories, mixed theories, expressivism, societal-defense theory, fair play theory, rights forfeiture theory, and the public health-quarantine model. Discusses sentencing, proportionality, policing, prosecution, and the role punishment plays in the context of the state. Examines advances in neuroscience and debates about whether free will skepticism undermines the justifiability of punishment. Considers forgiveness, restorative justice, and calls to abolish punishment. Addresses pressing social issues such as mass incarceration, juvenile justice, punitive torture, the death penalty, and “cruel and unusual” punishment. · With its unmatched breadth and depth, this book is essential reading for scholars who want to keep abreast of the field and for advanced students wishing to explore the frontiers of the subject.
The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment 1st Table of contents:
1. Introduction: Punishment, Its Meaning and Justification
Part I. Philosophic History of Punishment Theory
2. The Philosophy of Punishment and the Arc of Penal Reform: From Ancient Lawgivers to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and through the Nineteenth Century
3. Hobbes versus Hart: Reflections on Legal Positivism and the Point of Punishment
4. Is Crime Caused by Illness, Immorality, or Injustice? Theories of Punishment in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Part II. Retributivism, Consequentialism, and Mixed Theories
5. Relational Conceptions of Retribution
6. Doubts about Retribution: Is Punishment Non-Instrumentally Good or Right?
7. Consequentialist Theories of Punishment
8. Rethinking Four Criticisms of Consequentialist Theories of Punishment
9. In Defense of a Mixed Theory of Punishment
10. Rethinking Mixed Justifications
Part III. Beyond the Traditional Approaches
11. Expressive Theories of Punishment
12. Justifying Criminal Punishment as Societal-Defense
13. Fair Play Theories of Punishment
14. The Rights-Forfeiture Theory of Punishment
Part IV. Punishment in the Political Context
15. Criminal Justice and the Liberal State
16. From the Philosophy of Punishment to the Philosophy of Criminal Justice
17. Beware of Prosecutors Bearing Gifts: How the Ancient Greeks Can Help Cure Our Addiction to Excessive Punishment
Part V. Proportionality and Sentencing
18. Proportionality Collapses: The Search for an Adequate Equation for Proportionality
19. Sentencing Pluralism
Part VI. Neuroscience, Determinism, and Free Will Skepticism
20. The Impact of Neuromorality on Punishment: Retribution or Rehabilitation?
21. Punishment without Blame, Shame, or Just Deserts
22. Retributivism, Free Will, and the Public Health-Quarantine Model
23. Do Rapists Deserve Criminal Treatment?
24. Free Will Skepticism and Criminals as Ends in Themselves
Part VII. Abolitionism
25. Against Legal Punishment
26. The Abolition of Punishment
Part VIII. Forgiveness and Restoration
27. Punishment and Forgiveness
28. Restorative Justice, Punishment, and the Law
29. Punitive Restoration
Part IX. Applications
30. Mass Incarceration as Distributive Injustice
31. Blaming Kids
32. Punitive Torture
33. The Justice of Capital Punishment
34. The Impermissibility of Execution
35. Cruel and Unusual Punishment
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