Rethinking Punishment - Couverture souple

Zaibert, Leo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1316645398 ISBN 13 : 9781316645390

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The age-old debate about what constitutes just punishment has become deadlocked. Retributivists continue to privilege desert over all else, and consequentialists continue to privilege punishment's expected positive consequences, such as deterrence or rehabilitation, over all else. In this important intervention into the debate, Leo Zaibert argues that despite some obvious differences, these traditional positions are structurally very similar, and that the deadlock between them stems from the fact they both oversimplify the problem of punishment. Proponents of these positions pay insufficient attention to the conflicts of values that punishment, even when justified, generates. Mobilizing recent developments in moral philosophy, Zaibert offers a properly pluralistic justification of punishment that is necessarily more complex than its traditional counterparts. An understanding of this complexity should promote a more cautious approach to inflicting punishment on individual wrongdoers and to developing punitive policies and institutions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leo Zaibert is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Union College, New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316645398
• ISBN 13: 9781316645390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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