Overview
- Provides solid link between concepts of responsibility and punishment
- Provides a defence of a new retributivist analysis of punishment
- Provides discussions of timely topics in the law such as capital punishment, corporate responsibility and punishment, and the U.S.'s responsibility for its recent invasion and occupation of Iraq
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 34)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume provides discussions of both the concept of responsibility and of punishment, and of both individual and collective responsibility. It provides in-depth Socratic and Kantian bases for a new version of retributivism, and defends that version against the main criticisms that have been raised against retributivism in general. It includes chapters on criminal recidivism and capital punishment, as well as one on forgiveness, apology and punishment that is congruent with the basic precepts of the new retributivism defended therein. Finally, chapters on corporate responsibility and punishment are included, with a closing chapter on holding the U.S. accountable for its most recent invasion and occupation of Iraq. The book is well-focused but also presents the widest ranging set of topics of any book of its kind as it demonstrates how the concepts of responsibility and punishment apply to some of the most important problems of our time.
“This is one of the best books on punishment, and the Fourth Edition continues its tradition of excellence. The book connects punishment importantly to moral responsibility and desert, and it is comprehensive in its scope, both addressing abstract, theoretical issues and applied issues as well. The topics treated include collective responsibility, apology, forgiveness, capital punishment, and war crimes. Highly recommended.”—John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Responsibility and Punishment
Authors: J. Angelo Corlett
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0776-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0775-7Published: 13 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7925-9Published: 15 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0776-4Published: 23 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XIV, 266
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general