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Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 104
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This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of
criminal punishment. It examines the "paradox of retribution": the
fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is
morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years
of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for
inflicting harm on wrongdoers. The book comes at a time when a new
"abolitionist" movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we
should give up the search for justification and accept that
punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued
immediately. This book, however, proposes a new approach to the
retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be
understood in its traditional formulation that has been long
forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of
the honor of the victim. Properly understood, this can give us the
possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution
of punishment.
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