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Author: Paul H. Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-05-23
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 0199917728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch suggests that people of all demographics have nuanced and sophisticated notions of justice. Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert sketches the contours of a wide range of lay judgments of justice, touching many if not most of the issues that penal code drafters or policy makers must face.
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0195365755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the social sciences, Paul Robinson describes the nature of the practical challenge in setting rational punishment principles, how past efforts have failed, and the alternatives that have been tried.
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 3030228118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings. Some of the essays deal with the relationship between morality and criminalization. Others deal with criminalization in the context of specific crimes such as fraud, blackmail, and revenge pornography. The contributors also address questions of responsible agency such as the effects of addiction or insanity, and some deal with punishment, its mode and severity, and the justness of the state’s imposition of it. These chapters are authored by some of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of applied ethics, criminal law, and jurisprudence.
Author: Serena Olsaretti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 0199645124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute benefits and burdens fairly? Thirty-eight leading figures from philosophy and political theory present specially written critical assessments of the key issues in this flourishing area of research.
Author: Jill Karson
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses reforms that would improve the criminal justice system, how the rights of the accused affect the system, sentencing laws, the effect of the legal system on criminal justice, and more.
Author: Shelly Kagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 0190233729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Geometry of Desert explores the hidden complexity of moral desert. Using graphs to illustrate and contrast alternative views, it carefully investigates the various ways in which the value of an outcome varies when people get (or fail to get) what they deserve.
Author: Anthony De Jasay
Publisher: Amagi Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLibertarian (in the right-wing sense) political philosopher de Jasay presents 17 essays on his conception of justice and issues that he sees as surrounding the concept of justice: the state, the redistribution of income and wealth, the benefits and burdens between those who make collective choices and those who submit to them, the shaping of economic and social institutions so as to make them fit a unified ideology, and the problem of individual liberty. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Paul H Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-09-10
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0199710937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a society's success in two of its most fundamental functions: doing justice and protecting citizens from crime. Drawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the social sciences, Paul Robinson describes the nature of the practical challenge in setting rational punishment principles, how past efforts have failed, and the alternatives that have been tried. He ultimately proposes a principle for distributing criminal liability and punishment that will be most likely to do justice and control crime. Paul Robinson is one of the world's leading criminal law experts. He has been writing about criminal liability and punishment issues for three decades, and has published dozens of influential articles in the best scholarly journals. This long-awaited volume is a brilliant synthesis of social science research and legal reasoning that brings together three decades of work in a compelling line of argument that addresses all of the important issues in assessing liability and punishment.
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 761
ISBN-13: 0199861277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriminal Law Conversations provides an authoritative overview of contemporary criminal law debates in the United States. This collection of high caliber scholarly papers was assembled using an innovative and interactive method of nominations and commentary by the nation's top legal scholars. Virtually every leading scholar in the field has participated, resulting in a volume of interest to those both in and outside of the community. Criminal Law Conversations showcases the most captivating of these essays, and provides insight into the most fundamental and provocative questions of modern criminal law. * Jeffrie G. Murphy's, essay "Remorse, Apology & Mercy," was declared Recommended Reading in the Green Bag Almanac and Reader, 2010.
Author: Richard L. Lippke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1003849482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking. The work argues that legal punishment censures convicted offenders and thus morally communicates with them, any victims, and the broader community, while also serving to reduce future crime. The expressive or retributive element is assigned the lead role in this mixed account because it better captures the notion that members of society are to be held morally accountable for their failures to abide by defensible criminal prohibitions of various kinds. Despite this, it is conceded that the reduction of crime plays a vital role in justifying the institution of legal punishment and the book contains extended discussion of how and why this is so. Beyond its explication of the aims of legal punishment and their respective roles within a mixed theory, the study devotes separate chapters to sentencing, criminal procedure, and the imposition of fees and collateral legal consequences on individuals who have been convicted of crimes and fully served their sentences. In these ways, the work moves beyond discussion of the abstract aims of legal punishment to details of the institution’s internal structure and operations. The many historical deficiencies and failures of the institution are duly noted and the challenges they pose for punishment theorizing are examined. The book closes with discussion of the limited success of punishment institutions in apprehending, convicting, and punishing those who violate the law, including many who do so in serious ways. Alternatives to reliance on legal punishment institutions are briefly examined. In the end, retention of such institutions is urged although it is suggested that we ought to have modest expectations about their ultimate success. The work will be of interest to those working in the areas of Legal Philosophy and Criminology.
