The Palgrave handbook on the philosopy of punishment / Matthew C. Altman, editor.
Altman, Matthew C., editor.
2023
K5103 P35 2023
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Title The Palgrave handbook on the philosopy of punishment / Matthew C. Altman, editor.
ISBN 9783031118746 (electronic bk.)
303111874X (electronic bk.)
3031118731
9783031118739
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11874-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 805 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-11874-6 doi
Call Number K5103 P35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.601
Summary Altman has assembled an estimable group of scholars who provide fresh perspectives on traditional topics in the theory of legal punishment and intriguing discussions of issues that stretch the boundaries of penal theory. The contributions to the volume are of uniformly high quality, and scholars and students interested in these topics will benefit from reading and engaging with them. Richard L. Lippke, Professor Emeritus, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA This is a serious survey of philosophical positions on the justification and politics of punishment, skeptical engagements with the legitimacy of criminal punishment, and explorations of possibilities for alternatives to punitiveness. International leaders in the field are well represented here. This book comes at an opportune moment for thinking critically about these important subjects. It will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in criminal law and the search for justice. Erin I. Kelly, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, USA This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the fields 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. Matthew C. Altman is Professor of Philosophy at Central Washington University, USA. His most recent monograph is A Theory of Legal Punishment: Deterrence, Retribution, and the Aims of the State (2021). He is also series editor of Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave handbooks in the philosophy of law. 2730-9177
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Introduction: Punishment, its meaning and justification / Matthew C. Altman
The philosophy of punishment and the arc of penal reform : from ancient lawgivers to the renaissance and the enlightenment, and through the nineteenth century / John D. Bessler
Hobbes versus Hart : reflections on Legal positivism and the point of punishment / Margaret Martin
Is crime caused by illness, immorality, or injustice? Theories of punishment in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Amelia M. Wirts
Relational conceptions of retribution / Leora Dahan Katz
Doubts about retribution : is punishment non-instrumentally good or right? / Isaac Wiegman
Consequentialist theories of punishment / Hsin-Wen Lee
Rethinking four criticisms of consequentialist theories of punishment / Christopher Bennett
In defense of a mixed theory of punishment / Matthew C. Altman
Rethinking mixed justifications / Leo Zaibert
Expressive theories of punishment / Bill Wringe
Justifying criminal punishment as societal-defense / Phillip Montague
Fair play theories of punishment / Göran Duus-Otterström
The rights-forfeiture theory of punishment / Whitley Kaufman
Criminal justice and the liberal state / Matt Matravers
From the philosophy of punishment to the philosophy of criminal justice / Javier Wilenmann and Vincent Chiao
Beware of prosecutors bearing gifts : how the ancient Greeks can help cure our addiction to excessive punishment / Clark M. Neily III and Chris W. Surprenant
Proportionality collapses : the search for an adequate equation for proportionality / Stephen Kershnar
Sentencing pluralism / Douglas Husak
The Impact of neuromorality on punishment : retribution or rehabilitation? / Sandy Xie, Colleen M. Berryessa, and Farah Focquaert
Punishment without blame, shame, or just deserts / Bruce N. Waller
Retributivism, free will, and the public health-quarantine model / Gregg D. Caruso
Do rapists deserve criminal treatment? / Katrina L. Sifferd
Free will skepticism and criminals as ends in themselves / Benjamin Vilhauer
Against legal punishment / Nathan Hanna
The abolition of punishment / Michael Davis
Punishment and forgiveness / John Kleinig
Restorative justice, punishment, and the law / Lode Walgrave
Punitive restoration / Thom Brooks
Mass Incarceration as distributive injustice / Benjamin Ewing
Blaming kids / Craig K. Agule
Punitive torture / Peter Brian Barry
The justice of capital punishment / Edward Feser
The impermissibility of execution / Benjamin S. Yost
Cruel and unusual punishment / Chad Flanders.

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