166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book argues that legal punishment is almost never morally justified. Many criminal law theorists think that this view is deeply at odds with common sense and that it’s subject to decisive objections. Against these theorists, the book argues that the standard objections to this view fail and that commonsense judgments support it. Along the way, the book stakes out and defends novel positions... Read more
Introduction; 1: Punishment Intends Harm; 2: Why Intending Harm Matters; 3: Desert; 4: Deterrence; 5: A Plea for Epistemic Humility; Conclusion; References
Biography
Nathan Hanna is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University, USA. He specializes in ethics and philosophy of law and has published on the ethics of punishment and on related issues such as desert, harm, and moral responsibility.
