Punishment: The Supposed Justifications Revisited

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
THE NEED TO JUSTIFY PUNISHMENT......Page 13
THE DEFINITION OF PUNISHMENT......Page 17
RETRIBUTION THEORIES IN GENERAL......Page 26
LEGAL, CIRCULAR, AND INTRINSIC-GOOD RETRIBUTIVISM......Page 32
DISTRESS–CULPABILITY, FORFEITED RIGHTS, INDIFFERENCE......Page 38
INNOCENCE SYSTEM......Page 44
ANNULMENT, OFFENDERS’ RIGHTS......Page 50
RATIONAL CONTRACT......Page 55
CONSENT TO LOSS OF IMMUNITY......Page 57
SATISFACTIONS-IN-ACTING......Page 62
AN ACTUAL REASON......Page 67
SYSTEM......Page 74
DEFENCES AND CRITICISMS......Page 78
QUESTIONS OF FACT ABOUT PREVENTION......Page 83
THE UTILITARIAN PREVENTION THEORY......Page 95
THE VICTIMIZATION OBJECTION......Page 98
UTILITARIANS ON VICTIMIZATION......Page 104
JUSTIFIED AND UNJUSTIFIED VICTIMIZATIONS......Page 113
RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION......Page 118
PUNISHMENT AS REFORMATIVE......Page 121
ILLNESS AND TREATMENT......Page 127
OBJECTIONS......Page 134
PUNISHMENT, FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY......Page 139
A SKETCH OF DETERMINISM......Page 142
DETERMINISM DESPITE QUANTUM THEORY......Page 147
COMPATIBILISM AND INCOMPATIBILISM......Page 153
ATTITUDINISM......Page 154
ARGUMENTS FOR COMPATIBILISM AND INCOMPATIBILISM......Page 160
THE REAL CONSEQUENCES OF DETERMINISM......Page 164
PUNISHMENT......Page 167
RETROSPECT, SEPARATE QUESTIONS......Page 172
PREVENTION AND RETRIBUTION......Page 179
CORRECT-VALUES RETRIBUTIVISM......Page 185
LIBERAL-COMMUNITY RETRIBUTIVISM......Page 193
THE END OF ALL RETRIBUTIVISM......Page 204
THE DECENT SOCIETY......Page 210
THE PRINCIPLE OF HUMANITY......Page 215
OUR SOCIETIES......Page 219
OUR UNJUSTIFIED PUNISHMENTS......Page 225
Acknowledgements......Page 237
Notes......Page 238
Index......Page 254