Punishment and Political TheoryMatt Matravers This book brings together moral and legal philosophers,criminologists and political theorists in an attempt to address the interdependence of the study of punishment and of political theory as well as specific issues, such as freedom, autonomy, coercion and rights that arise in both. In addition to new essays on the compatibility of rights and utilitarianism and of autonomy and coercion in Kant's theory, the book contains an extended treatment of the idea of punishment as communication. This theme is taken up in arguments over whether punishment is communicative, in the questions of what the content of any such communication could be in a pluralist society, and whether communicative accounts can make sense of the use of 'hard treatment'. By combining the techniques and expertise of different disciplines, the essays in this book shed new light on the problem of punishment. They also demonstrate the usefulness of that problem as a testing ground for legal and moral philosophy. |
Contents
Punishment in a Kantian Framework | 10 |
Punishment and Rights | 28 |
Punishment Communication and Community | 48 |
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Common terms and phrases
account of punishment Albert Speer Antony Duff appropriate argued argument autonomy Cambridge University Press censure citizens civil society claim coercion communicative theory communitarian conception of punishment concern condemn conduct consent consequentialist context crime criminal justice criminal law disciplinary power Duff's Dworkin ethical example Giddens Gitta Sereny guilt H. L. A. Hart hard treatment punishments Hirsch Ibid individual institutions interpretation interpretivism interpretivist ishment issue Ivison judgement justification of punishment Kant Kant's Kantian kind Lacey late modernity legal pluralism liberal ment meta-ethical moral agents moral community moral standing municative Myra Hindley nature normative offender offender's Oxford University Press Penal Communications penal theory penalty penance penitential person Philosophy political community political theory practice of punishment prudential question R. A. Duff rational reasons recognise reform repentance response retributivism retributivist role sanction sense Sereny social sovereignty Speer suggests theorists theory of punishment tion understanding utilitarian values wrong wrongdoing
References to this book
The Ethics of Proportionate Punishment: A Critical Investigation Jesper Ryberg No preview available - 2004 |