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The Ethics of Proportionate Punishment - A Critical Investigation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)
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The Ethics of Proportionate Punishment - A Critical Investigation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)
Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 16
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The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in
years. In contrast with a large number of ethical problems which
are concerned with right and wrong in relation to a narrowly
specified area of human life and practice and which hav- at least
since the early 70's - been regarded as a legitimate part of
philosophical thinking constituting the area of applied ethics,
reflections on punishment can be traced much further back in the
history of western philosophy. This is not surprising. That the
stately mandated infliction of death, suffering, or deprivation on
citizens should be met with hesitation - from which ethical
reflections may depar- seems obvious. Such a practice certainly
calls for some persuasive justification. It is therefore natural
that reflective minds have for a long time devoted attention to
punishment and that the question of how a penal system can be
justified has constituted the central question in philosophical
discussion. Though it would certainly be an exaggeration to claim
that the justification question is the only aspect of punishment
with which philosophers have been concerned, there has in most
periods been a clear tendency to regard this as the cardinal issue.
Comparatively much less attention has been devoted to the more
precise questions of how, and how much, criminals should be
punished for their respective wrong-doings. This may, of course, be
due to several reasons.
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