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An Expressive Theory of Punishment (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy)
Bill Wringe
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Hardcover. This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JKVP; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals.
This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137357113
SKU
V9781137357113
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99-15
About Bill Wringe
Bill Wringe is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews and Leeds, and has published widely on a range of topics in ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of mind, including collective intentionality and obligation, punishment, emotion and perceptual states.
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