Punishment, Communication, and Community (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) - Softcover

Duff, R.A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195166663 ISBN 13: 9780195166668

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 2001

Synopsis

Part of the Studies in Crime and Public Policy series, this book, written by one of the top philosophers of punishment, examines the main trends in penal theorizing over the past three decades. Duff asks what can justify criminal punishment, and then explores the legitimacy of actual practices by examining what would count as adequate justification for them. Duff argues that a "communicative conception of punishment," which he presents as a third way between consequentialist and retributive theories, offers the most fruitful way of understanding punishment's meaning and justification. Duff addresses such question as how much sentences should be constrained by proportionality requirements; what modalities of punishment best communicate their intended meaning; and what decisionmaking procedures he envisions. This book will appeal to criminologists, philosophers, and others interested in theories of punishment.

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About the Author

R.A. Duff was educated at the University of Oxford and has taught philosophy at the University of Sterling since 1970. He is the author of Trials and Punishments (1986), Intention, Agency, and Criminal Liability (1990), and Criminal Attempts (OUP 1996), contributing editor of Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (1998), and co-editor, with David Garland, of A Reader on Punishment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195166663
• ISBN 13: 9780195166668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272