The ethics of capital punishment: a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences
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Main Author: Kramer, Matthew H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Deterrence through capital punishment -- Death and retribution -- Death as incapacitation -- Death as a means of denunciation -- The purgative rationale for capital punishment -- The death penalty in operation
Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, 'The Ethics of Capital Punishment' presents a rationale for the death penalty grounded in a theory of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 353 p.)
ISBN:0191029688
0191732184
0199642184
9780191029684
9780191732188
9780199642182

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