The Problem of Punishment

Informationen zum Autor David Boonin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A Defense of Abortion and Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue, as well as numerous articles on a variety of topics in ethics and applied ethics. Klappentext This book asks why it is morally permissible for the state to punish people for breaking the law. Zusammenfassung Why is it morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not? This book argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The problem of punishment; 2. The consequentialist solution; 3. The retributivist solution; 4. Other solutions; 5. The appeal to necessity.

Klappentext

This book asks why it is morally permissible for the state to punish people for breaking the law.

Zusammenfassung
Why is it morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not? This book argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished.

Inhalt

1. The problem of punishment; 2. The consequentialist solution; 3. The retributivist solution; 4. Other solutions; 5. The appeal to necessity.