The Case Against Punishment: Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law

Description

What ends does our criminal justice system expect and hope to serve when it punishes wrongdoers? Does the punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In The Case Against Punishment, Deirdre Golash addresses these and other questions about the value of punishment in contemporary society.

Drawing on both empirical evidence and philosophical literature, this book argues that the harm done by punishing criminal offenders is ultimately morally unjustified. Asserting that punishment inflicts both intended and unintended harms on offenders, Golash suggests that crime can be reduced by addressing social problems correlated with high crime rates, such as income inequality and local social disorganization. Punishment may reduce crime, but in so doing, causes a comparable amount of harm to offenders. Instead, Golash suggests, we should address criminal acts through trial, conviction, and compensation to the victim, while also providing the criminal with the opportunity to reconcile with society through morally good action rather than punishment.

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "The Case Against Punishment: Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 3179
2. Punishment And Retribution (Law, Justice and Power)
3. Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, Fourth Edition
4. The Handbook of Crime and Punishment
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Crime and Punishment (Cliffs Notes)
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Crime And Punishment In England: A Sourcebook
9. [share_ebook] Crime and Punishment
10. Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
11. [share_ebook] Crime and Punishment
12. Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library, 1st Edition
13. [share_ebook] Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment
14. Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment
15. The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
16. Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century