Distributive principles of criminal law : who should be punished, how much? /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robinson, Paul H., 1948-
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=b709d3f3bd68453eb9fd1848b7678e99
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199710935
9780195365757
Index Number: K5103
CLC: D971.24
Contents: Distributing criminal liability and punishment -- The need for an articulated distributive principle -- Does criminal law deter? -- Deterrence as a distributive principle -- Rehabilitation -- Incapacitation of the dangerous -- Competing conceptions of desert : vengeful, deontological, and empirical -- The utility of desert -- Restorative justice -- The strengths & weaknesses of alterative distributive principles -- Hybrid distributive principles -- A practical theory of justice : proposal for a hybrid distributive principle centered on empirical desert.