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The Case Against Punishment: Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law - Hardcover

Golash, Deirdre

 
9780814731581: The Case Against Punishment: Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0814731589 ISBN 13: 9780814731581
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

What ends do we expect and hope to serve in punishing criminal wrongdoers? Does the punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In The Case against Punishment, Deirdre Golash addresses these and other questions about the value of punishment in contemporary society.
Drawing on both empirical evidence and philosophical literature, this book argues that the harm done by punishing criminal offenders is ultimately morally unjustified. Asserting that punishment inflicts both intended and unintended harms on offenders, Golash suggests that crime can be reduced by addressing social problems correlated with high crime rates, such as income inequality and local social disorganization. Punishment may reduce crime, but in so doing, causes a comparable amount of harm to offenders. Instead, Golash suggests, we should address criminal acts through trial, conviction, and compensation to the victim, while also providing the criminal with the opportunity to reconcile with society through morally good action rather than punishment.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Deirdre Golash is associate professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at American University in Washington, DC.

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Verlag
NYU Press - IPS
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814731589
ISBN 13 
9780814731581
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
230
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