Punishment and desert /
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| Language: | English |
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The Hague :
Martinus Nijhoff,
1973.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Moral Justification
- Ch. 2. Definitions, Justification and Punishment
- 'Punishment' is an activity-word
- Punishment involves some imposition
- Punishment is meted out for moral wrongs
- Punishment in inflicted on offenders
- Must punishment be administered by as authority?
- Punishment as a moral notion
- Ch. 3. The Concept of desert
- The deserving
- The deserved
- The grounds of desert
- Ch. 4. Getting What one Deserves
- The authority punish
- Ch. 5. Desert, Punishment and Justice
- Justice vs. utility
- Justice and mercy
- Justice and forgiveness
- Ch. 6. Punishment and Responsibility
- Problems of determining responsability as alterability
- The elimination of responsability
- Moral and legal responsability
- Ch. 7. Getting as much as one deserves
- Scaling deserts
- Lex talionis
- An alternative
- Institutionalized penalties.