Punishment, Communication, and Community

by R.A. Duff

Book Overview

The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing about punishment offers a variety of answers to that question-answers that try to make plausible sense of the idea that punishment is justified as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195104293
• ISBN13: 9780195104295
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"