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Author:   Farah Focquaert ,  Elizabeth Shaw ,  Bruce N. Waller (Youngstown State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367553654

ISBN 10:   0367553651
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Introduction Part I: Theories of Punishment and Contemporary Perspectives 1. Theories of Punishment 2. Retribution 3. Offenders as Citizens 4. Hybrid Theories of Punishment 5. Limiting Retributivism and Individual Prevention 6. The Contours of a Utilitarian Theory of Punishment in Light of Contemporary Empirical Knowledge about the Attainment of Traditional Sentencing Objectives 7. The Restorative Justice Movement: Questioning the Rationale of Contemporary Criminal Justics Part II: Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment 8. Defamiliarizing Punishment 9. The Retributive Sentiments 10. The Right to Punish 11. Problem of Proportional Punishment 12. The Gap 13. Science and the Evolution of American Criminal Punishment 14. What is Wrong with Mass Incarceration? Part III: Sciences, Prevention, and Punishment 15. Punishment, Shaming, and Violence 16. Humanizing Prison through Social Neuroscience: From the Abolition of Solitary Confinement to the Pursuit of Socual Rehabilitation 17. Effects of Prison Crowding on Prison Misconduct and Bullying 18. Biosocial Risk Factors for Offending 19. Brain Abnormalities Associated with Pedophilia: Implications for Retribution and Rehabilitation 20. Current Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience and Criminal Punishment 21. Behavioural Genetics and Sentencing 22. Prediction, Screening and Early Intervention 23. Comparison of Socio-Affective Processing across Subtypes of Antisocial Psychopathology 24. Forensic Mental Health Treatment and Recidivism 25. Recovery of Persons Labelled ""Not Criminally Responsible"": Recommendations Grounded in Lived Experiences Part IV: Alternatives to Current Punishment Practices 26. Punishment and Its Alternatives 27. Pre-Trial Detention and the Supplantating of our Adversarial System 28. A Non-Punitive Alternative to Retributive Punishment 29. The Takings Doctrine and the Principle of Legality 30. How to Transform a Static Security Prison into a Dynamic Organism for Change and Growth 31. Towards a Strengths-Based Focus in the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Using Offenders"

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Farah Focquaert is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at Ghent University in Belgium. She is one of the Directors of the international Justice Without Retribution Network and the Founder and Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee at The Forensic Psychiatric Centers Ghent/Antwerp in Belgium. Elizabeth Shaw is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She is the Founder and one of the Directors of the international Justice Without Retribution Network. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, involving criminal law, philosophy, and neuroethics. Bruce N. Waller is Professor of Philosophy at Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA. Among his recent books are Against Moral Responsibility (2011), The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility (2015), Restorative Free Will (2015), and The Injustice of Punishment (2018).

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