The Urgings of Conscience: A Theory of Punishment

by Jacob Adler

While most philosophers who write about punishment ask, "Why may we punish the guilty?" Jacob Adler asks, "To what extent does a guilty person have a duty to submit to punishment?" He maintains that if we are to justify any system of punishment by the state, we must explain why persons guilty of an offense are morally bound to submit to punitive treatment, or to undertake it on their own. Using Rawls's theory of social contract as a framework,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877228264
• ISBN13: 9780877228264
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.