The rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a
society's success in two of its most fundamental functions: doing
justice and protecting citizens from crime. Drawing from the existing
theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the
social sciences, Paul Robinson describes the nature of the practical
challenge in setting rational punishment principles, how past efforts
have failed, and the alternatives that have been tried. He ultimately
proposes a principle for distributing criminal liability and
punishment that will be most likely to do justice and control crime.
Paul Robinson is one of the world's leading criminal law experts. He
has been writing about criminal liability and punishment issues for
three decades, and has published dozens of influential articles in the
best scholarly journals. This long-awaited volume is a brilliant
synthesis of social science research and legal reasoning that brings
together three decades of work in a compelling line of argument that
addresses all of the important issues in assessing liability and
punishment.
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ISBN
9780190451165
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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