[PDF] Crime Guilt And Punishment eBook

Author : C. L. Ten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of.
ISBN : 9780198750819

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Considering philosophical theories of punishment in light of both abstract arguments and factual evidence about the effects of punishing offenders, this book links the moral justification of punishment by the state to more general issues concerning the nature of moral disagreements and our obligations to obey the law. Ten applies his discussion to problems in the punishment of a variety of offenders--the dangerously mentally ill, Nazi war criminals, "negligent" drivers, rapists, and others--and considers several related questions about crime and punishment.

Author : C. L. Ten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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Considering both abstract arguments and factual evidence about the effects of punishing offenders, Ten links the moral justification of punishment by the state to more general issues about the nature of moral disagreements and our obligations to obey the law.

Author : Teri Kanefield
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544148967

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An examination of the legal system, including what constitutes a crime, why and how we punish people who commit crimes, how the government determines these rules, and how citizens react when they feel laws aren't fair.

Author : Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1460401093

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In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally repugnant, no matter how vile the behaviour that is its target. Despite the fact that it may be difficult to imagine a state functioning at all, let alone well, without having recourse to punishing those who break its laws, Zimmerman makes a timely and compelling case for the view that we must seek and put into practice alternative means of preventing crime and promoting social stability.

Author : Ferdinand von Schirach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307740935

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From Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, comes a jolting debut collection of short stories that daringly brings to light the motivations stirring within the criminal mind. By turns witty and sorrowful, unflinchingly brutal and heartbreaking, the deeply affecting, quietly unnerving cases presented in Crime urge a closer examination of guilt and innocence. In “Fähner,” a small-town physician and avid gardener betrays little emotion when he takes an ax to his wife’s head, an act that shocks the locals but provides a long-awaited reprieve for the good doctor. Abbas, a Palestinian refugee who is cornered into a life of crime, finds true love and seemingly a saving grace with a beautiful student named Stefanie in “Summertime.” But when she is viciously murdered in a hotel room after having been paid to sleep with one of the country’s wealthiest men, is Abbas to blame or is it the man who seems to have it all? And in the startling story “Love,” a young man’s infatuation with his girlfriend takes a grisly turn as he comes to grips with his unconventional—and uncontrollable—impulses to truly know a woman. “Guilt,” writes von Schirach, “always presents a bit of a problem.” In this beautifully nuanced and telling collection, guilt is indeed never as clear-cut as the crime, and justice is more nebulous still.

Author : Erin I. Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674980778

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Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal offenders and calls into question our society’s commitment to mass incarceration. The Limits of Blame takes issue with a criminal justice system that aligns legal criteria of guilt with moral criteria of blameworthiness. Many incarcerated people do not meet the criteria of blameworthiness, even when they are guilty of crimes. Kelly underscores the problems of exaggerating what criminal guilt indicates, particularly when it is tied to the illusion that we know how long and in what ways criminals should suffer. Our practice of assigning blame has gone beyond a pragmatic need for protection and a moral need to repudiate harmful acts publicly. It represents a desire for retribution that normalizes excessive punishment. Appreciating the limits of moral blame critically undermines a commonplace rationale for long and brutal punishment practices. Kelly proposes that we abandon our culture of blame and aim at reducing serious crime rather than imposing retribution. Were we to refocus our perspective to fit the relevant moral circumstances and legal criteria, we could endorse a humane, appropriately limited, and more productive approach to criminal justice.

Author : Alf Ross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520027176

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Selected essays originally published as a book in Danish in 1970. Three had been published before then in English, but the others are new. All deal with concepts common to law and morality. "They function in the same way in legal and moral discourse: guilt determines responsibility, and responsibility punishment. But the conditions under which a person incurs guilt differ according to whether the guilt is legal or moral, as do also the manner in which the responsibility takes effect and the penal reaction itself." Cf. Preface, page v.

Author : Theodor Reik
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Conscience
ISBN :

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'Based on lectures for the Robert Lindner Foundation in Baltimore, given November 13 and 14, 1956.'