The Limits of Blame
The Limits of Blame

Author: Erin I. Kelly

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-11-12

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0674980778

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Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society’s commitment to mass incarceration. The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment. Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.

The Problem of Punishment
The Problem of Punishment

Author: David Boonin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139470787

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In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not? Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by considering victim restitution as an alternative to punishment. Written in a clear and accessible style, The Problem of Punishment will be of interest to anyone looking for a critical introduction to the subject as well as to those already familiar with it.

Justified Punishment
Justified Punishment

Author: Boeje Aagaard Kristensen

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 8743049761

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Justified Punishment is the first published novel by the Scandinavian author from Denmark, Boeje Aagaard Kristensen. Boeje Aagaard Kristensen (born 1955) is a self-taught author. Born and growing up on a farm with all kinds of animals, wide acres and nature with forest and heath. As an adult he worked as a banker in Denmark and shortly in Germany and later as a financial advisor. On the side he bought and ran a farm with forest and production of Christmas trees. The farm was for many years also the home of himself, his wife and their two girls. In 2018 he published his first novel in Danish - Hvem slukkede lyset? - in 2023 translated into English with the title: Justified Punishment. The locations in the novel Justified Punishment are: a small community in the center of Jutland, Denmark, a county called Salling north of the town Skive also in Jutland, Aarhus - the largest city in Jutland, Sydney - Australia, and Fiji. Holger Danielsen said: "I think maybe somebody wants to hurt me, Daniel." Holger Danielsen felt he was in danger. Was there a connection between his past as a member of the resistance group during world war II, and the attempts to kill him? Or was he suffering from dementia, and the attempts to kill him were only in his own imagination? He felt helpless at the elder center, he had been brought to. He sent a letter to his son, Daniel, who after a personal tragedy had gone to Australia. But Daniel was in danger himself. A coincidental meeting with a local drug dealer - called Taipan - put him at risk. Taipan signed a contract on his life... Quotes: "Desperation, Daniel. Desperation and stress. Then you don't realize the consequences. And then what you choose to do in a desperate situation might turn out to be fatal for someone else." Using his right hand Daniel grabbed The Eel by the neck. "Do you read me, bastard? Are you ready to die?"

The Case Against Punishment
The Case Against Punishment

Author: Deirdre Golash

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2006-10

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0814731848

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Golash addresses the value of punishment in contemporary society.

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment

Author: Hyman Gross

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0199644713

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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.

Wrongs and Crimes
Wrongs and Crimes

Author: Victor Tadros

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-12-06

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 019106730X

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The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the series tackles the key questions at the heart of the issue: what principles and goals should guide legislators in deciding what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? How should law enforcement officials apply the law's specifications of offences? The sixth volume in the series offers a philosophical investigation of the relationship between moral wrongdoing and criminalization. Considering they justification of punishment, the nature of harm, the importance of autonomy, inchoate wrongdoing, the role of consent, and the role of the state, the book provides an account of the nature of moral wrong doing, the sources of wrong doing, why wrong doing is the central target of the criminal law, and the ways in which criminalization of non-wrongful conduct might be permissible.

Rights Forfeiture and Punishment
Rights Forfeiture and Punishment

Author: Christopher Heath Wellman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 019027476X

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In Rights Forfeiture and Punishment, Christopher Heath Wellman argues that those who seek to defend the moral permissibility of punishment should shift their focus from general justifying aims to moral side constraints. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment.

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

Author: Cesare Beccaria

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1584776382

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Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.

The Penal System
The Penal System

Author: Michael Cavadino

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 1526496801

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Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice. Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition: Outlines contemporary policy debates on sentencing, staffing, youth custody and overcrowding. Explores growing inequalities in the criminal justice system including issues of race, religion, gender and sexuality, with new content on faith, and transgender prisoners. Considers the impact of privatisation on the probation service. Discusses the most recent debates around the parole process, including high-profile cases and attempts at reform. The book is supported by online resources for lecturers and students, including chapter PowerPoints, sample syllabus, summaries of key legislative acts, bills and official reports, a list of recommended further reading for each chapter, and links to important Penal Agencies and Organisations, Law Reform Organisations, and other useful academic sites. Essential reading for students of criminal justice and criminology, studying penology, punishments and the penal system.

Justifying Legal Punishment
Justifying Legal Punishment

Author: Igor Primoratz

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 1997-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 159102983X

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While the philosophy of punishment is dominated by utilitarian and "mixed" theories, this study, written in the analytic tradition but also drawing on the views of Hegel, argues for a purely retributive view: all the main questions facing a theory of punishment are answered in terms of justice and desert, without any concessions to social expediency.