Victor Tadros

The Ends of Harm

The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law

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Produktbeschreibung

How can the brutal and costly enterprise of criminal punishment be justified? This book makes a provocative, original contribution to the philosophical literature and debate on the morality of punishing, arguing that punishment is justified in the duties that offenders incur as a result of their wrongdoing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780199554423
• ISBN-10: 0199554420
• Artikelnr.: 34225071

Autorenporträt

Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. Prior to his appointment at Warwick he held positions at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He has written on criminal responsibility, criminal offences, criminal trials, the presumption of innocence, just war theory, and various aspects of moral and political philosophy. He is currently engaged in a major project on criminalization with Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall, and Massimo Renzo, funded by the AHRC for which he is currently writing a book entitled Wrongs and Crimes.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
The Aims of Punishment
2: Justifying Punishment
3: Recognition and Choice
4: Against Desert
5: The Limits of Communication
Means, Motivations, and Ends
6: Defending the Means Principle
7: Wrongdoing and Motivation
Permissibility, Harm, and Self-Defence
8: Choice, Responsibility, and Permissible Harm
9: Conflicts and Permissibility
10: Mistakes and Self-Defence
11: Responsibility and Self-Defence
Punishment and the Duties of Offenders
12: Punishment as a Remedy
13: State Punishment
14: Protection Against Punishment
15: Proportionate Punishment