Punishment, communication, and community:

"This book begins with a critical survey of recent trends in penal theory, but goes on to develop an original account (based on Duff's earlier Trials and Punishments) of criminal punishment as a mode of moral communication, aimed at inducing repentance, reform, and reconciliation through r...

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Main Author: Duff, Antony 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2001
Series:Studies in crime and public policy
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Summary:"This book begins with a critical survey of recent trends in penal theory, but goes on to develop an original account (based on Duff's earlier Trials and Punishments) of criminal punishment as a mode of moral communication, aimed at inducing repentance, reform, and reconciliation through reparation - an account that undercuts the traditional controversies between consequentialist and retributivist penal theories, and that shows how abolitionist concerns can properly be met by a system of communicative punishments."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XX, 245 S.
ISBN:0195104293

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