Trials and Punishments

by R.A. Duff

Book Overview

How can a system of criminal punishment be justified? In particular can it be justified if the moral demand that we respect each other as autonomous moral agents is taken seriously? Traditional attempts to justify punishment as a deterrent or as retribution fail, but Duff suggests that punishment can be understood as a communicative attempt to bring a wrong-doer to repent her crime. This account is supported by discussions of moral blame, of penance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521407613
• ISBN13: 9780521407618
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"