Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery.
Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery.
Hyman Gross is the sometime Arthur Goodhart Professor of Legal Science and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
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Preface Introduction 1: Crime and Impunity 2: Sufficiently Good Reason 3: Taking Human Rights Seriously 4: Crimes as Pretexts for Improvement 5: Crimes as Demands for a Remedy 6: Punishment and Injustice 7: Crime, Harm, and Moral Wrong 8: Criminal Conduct and Its Culpability 9: More About Culpability 10: Psychoculpability 11: Persons and Choices 12: Consoling Fictions 13: Guilt and Convictability 14: The Decline of Punishment Postscript: Reconceiving Response to Crime Notes Some Further References
Preface Introduction 1: Crime and Impunity 2: Sufficiently Good Reason 3: Taking Human Rights Seriously 4: Crimes as Pretexts for Improvement 5: Crimes as Demands for a Remedy 6: Punishment and Injustice 7: Crime, Harm, and Moral Wrong 8: Criminal Conduct and Its Culpability 9: More About Culpability 10: Psychoculpability 11: Persons and Choices 12: Consoling Fictions 13: Guilt and Convictability 14: The Decline of Punishment Postscript: Reconceiving Response to Crime Notes Some Further References
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