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Punishment and Freedom
Author | : Alan Brudner |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780191633287 |
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This book sets out a new understanding of the penal law of a liberal legal order. The prevalent view today is that the penal law is best understood from the standpoint of a moral theory concerning when it is fair to blame and censure an individual character for engaging in proscribed conduct. By contrast, this book argues that the penal law is best understood by a political and constitutional theory about when it is permissible for the state to restrain and confine a free agent. The book's thesis is that penal action by public officials is permissible force rather than wrongful violence only if it could be accepted by the agent as being consistent with its freedom. There are, however, different conceptions of freedom, and each informs a theoretical paradigm of penal justice generating distinctive constraints on state coercion. Although this plurality of paradigms creates an appearance of fragmentation and contradiction in the law, the author argues that the penal law forms a complex whole uniting the constraints on punishment flowing from each paradigm.
Punishment and Freedom
Author | : Alan Brudner |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199207251 |
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The book provides a novel theory of the criminal law that focuses, not on when it is appropriate to blame and make suffer an individual character, but on when it is legitimate to deprive a free agent of its liberty and on how it is possible to reconcile punishment with individual freedom.
Punishment and Freedom
Author | : Devora Steinmetz |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-06-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780812240689 |
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Punishment and Freedom offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy, arguing that the Rabbis constructed an extreme positivist view of law that is based in divine command and that is related to the rabinnic notion notion of human freedom and responsibility.
Punishment and Freedom
Author | : Alan Brudner |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199652334 |
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Presenting an original theory on the nature of crimimal law, this text provides an understanding of apparent contradictions and paradoxes within the field.
Executing Freedom
Author | : Daniel LaChance |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226583181 |
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In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States.
Freedom from Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Author | : Kristin O'Donnell Tubb |
Publsiher | : Greenhaven Publishing |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0737719257 |
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Presents the history of the Bill of Rights and examines the events that led to their formation including the Articles of Confederation and Constitution as well as a detailed explanation of those rights and other important amendments to the Constitution.
Beyond Punishment
Author | : Louis J Marx |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1552374637 |
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Money and the Governance of Punishment
Author | : Patricia Faraldo Cabana |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134872572 |
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Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions, imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and in some jurisdictions many of those in prison are there because of failure to pay their fines. Therefore, it is surprising how little has been written in the Anglophone academic world about the nature of money sanctions and their specific characteristics as legal sanctions. In many ways, legal innovations related to money sanctions have been poorly understood. This book argues that they are a direct consequence of the changing meaning of money. Considering the ‘meaninglessness’ of modern money, the book aims to examine the history of changing conceptions in how fines have been conceived and used. Using a set of interpretative techniques sensitive to how money and freedom are perceived, the genealogy of the penal fine is presented as a story of constant reformulation in response to shifting political pressures and changes in intellectual developments that influenced ideological commitments of legislators and practitioners. This book is multi-disciplinary and will appeal to those engaged with criminology, sociology and philosophy of punishment, socio-legal studies, and criminal law.