Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Gross, Hyman

Crime and punishment a concise moral critique - New York Oxford University Press 2012

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index.

Crime and impunity -- Sufficiently good reason -- Taking human rights seriously -- Crimes as pretexts for improvement -- Crimes as demands for a remedy -- Punishment and injustice -- Crime, harm, and moral wrong -- Criminal conduct and its culpability -- More about culpability -- Pyschoculpability -- Persons and choices -- Consoling fictions -- Guilt and convictability -- The decline of punishment.

ISBN: 9780198738091

LCCN: 2012931703

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB1A5145 bnb GBB1A5145 dnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Criminal justice, Administration of--Philosophy.--Great Britain
Criminal justice, Administration of--Philosophy.--United States
Punishment--Philosophy.--Great Britain
Punishment--Philosophy.--United States
Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain.
Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.