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- Title
- Justifying Legal Punishment
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- Publication year
- 1997
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- paperback
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- English
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While the philosophy of punishment is dominated by utilitarian and "mixed" theories, this study, written in the analytic tradition but also drawing on the views of Hegel, argues for a purely retributive view: all the main questions facing a theory of punishment are answered in terms of justice and desert, without any concessions to social expediency.
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About the Author
Igor Primoratz is a Principal Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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