Why Punish?

by Nigel Walker

Book Overview

In this fresh look at our justifications for punishment, Walker argues that the modern retributive theory of punishment has not solved the problems of the classical utilitarian approach, and has indeed created new ones of its own. Having researched these problems and discussed them with judges, magistrates, jurists, philosophers, and prisoners, he distinguishes rhetoric from hard reasoning and shows that attempts at intellectual compromises between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192892193
• ISBN13: 9780192892195
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"