Retribution, Justice, and Therapy: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

by Jeffrie G. Murphy

Book Overview

One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the sum of its parts. When this happens, as I hope it does in the present case, it is because the essays pursue related themes in such a way that, together,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902770998X
• ISBN13: 9789027709981
• Release Date: July 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"