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Author:   Thom Brooks ,  Dr. Thom Brooks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   1.088kg
ISBN:  

9781409451204

ISBN 10:   1409451208
Pages:   452
Publication Date:   12 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Introduction; Part I Retributions: Varieties of retribution, John Cottingham; A taxonomy of retributivism, Leo Zaibert; Punishment, Alan Brudner; Retributivism, Thom Brooks. Part II Retribution and Desert: Marxism and retribution, Jeffrie G. Murphy; Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered?, Stephen Nathanson; Three mistakes of retributivism, David Dolinko; Why punish the deserving?, Douglas N. Husak; Competing conceptions of modern desert: vengeful, deontological, and empirical, Paul H. Robinson; Retribution and capital punishment, Thom Brooks. Part III Proportionality: How to make the punishment fit the crime, Michael Davis; Justice, civilization and the death penalty: answering van den Haag, Jeffrey H. Reiman. Part IV Retributivist Emotions: The varieties of retributive experience, Christopher Bennett; The moral worth of retribution, Michael S. Moore. Part V Retribution and Mercy: Equity and mercy, Martha C. Nussbaum. Name index.

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Thom Brooks is Reader in Law at University of Durham, UK. John Cottingham, Leo Zaibert, Alan Brudner, Thom Brooks, Jeffrie G. Murphy, Stephen Nathanson, David Dolinko, Douglas N. Husak, Paul H. Robinson, Michael Davis, Jeffrey H. Reiman, Christopher Bennett, Michael S. Moore, Martha C. Nussbaum

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