Crime and punishment a concise moral critique

Crime and punishment : a concise moral critique / Hyman Gross.

Author/creator	Gross, Hyman
Other author/creator	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description	xv, 219 p. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subject(s)	Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain --Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of--United States --Philosophy. Punishment--Great Britain --Philosophy. Punishment--United States --Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects --Great Britain. Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects --United States. Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects --Great Britain. Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects --United States.

Contents	Crime and impunity -- Sufficiently good reason -- Taking human rights seriously -- Crimes as pretexts for improvement -- Crimes as demands for a remedy -- Punishment and injustice -- Crime, harm, and moral wrong -- Criminal conduct and its culpability -- More about culpability -- Pyschoculpability -- Persons and choices -- Consoling fictions -- Guilt and convictability -- The decline of punishment.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012931703
ISBN	9780199644711
ISBN	0199644713

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