Hyman Gross

Crime and Punishment

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780198738091
• ISBN-10: 0198738099
• Artikelnr.: 42437597

Autorenporträt

Hyman Gross is the sometime Arthur Goodhart Professor of Legal Science and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: Crime and Impunity
2: Sufficiently Good Reason
3: Taking Human Rights Seriously
4: Crimes as Pretexts for Improvement
5: Crimes as Demands for a Remedy
6: Punishment and Injustice
7: Crime, Harm, and Moral Wrong
8: Criminal Conduct and Its Culpability
9: More About Culpability
10: Psychoculpability
11: Persons and Choices
12: Consoling Fictions
13: Guilt and Convictability
14: The Decline of Punishment
Postscript: Reconceiving Response to Crime
Notes
Some Further References