Rights Forfeiture and Punishment

by Christopher Heath Wellman

Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights. Despite this, the vast majority of theorists working on punishment focus instead on important aims, such as achieving retributive justice, deterring crime, restoring victims, or expressing society's core values. Wellman contends that these aims...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019027476X
• ISBN13: 9780190274764
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"