Author: Pincoffs, Edmund L.
Title: The Rationale of Legal Punishment
Description: New York, Humanities Press, 1966. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, (10), 141 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Classical Debate; Retributivism: Kant; Hegel & Bradley; Utilitarianism: Paley; Bentham; The Impasse: The Punishment-of-the Innocent Argument: Preliminary Stattment; Utilitarianism Revised; Illustrations from Mill & Bradley; The Reward of the Guilty; The Revenge Argument: Statement and Replies; Some Sortings-Out: "The Purpose of Punishment"; Practices & Institutions; Definition of Legal Punishment; Some Varieties of Punishment-Discussion; The Chancellor's Foot: Preliminary Disctinctions: On the Finding of Guilt; On Sentencing; Legal Penalties & Moral Offenses: Legislative Retributivists & Utilitarians; Bentham & Kant on Legal Penalties; Temptation & Strict Liability; Models of the Legislator; Treatment vs. Punishment: Owen on Character & Responsibility; Owen's Progeny; On Responsibiltiy for Crime; The Justification of Punishment: On Justification: Guiding & Limiting Principles; Some Factual Assumptions & a Moral One; Effectiveness, Humanity & Justice; Alternatives to Punishment; On the Effectiveness & Acceptability of Punishment; On the Morality of Capital Punishment & Imprisonment.

Keywords: Philosophy of Law, Legal Theory, Penology, Penal, Punishment, , , ,