Author: Tahtinen, Unto
Title: Non-Violent Theories of Punishment: Indian and Western
Description: Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, (1982). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 148 pp. Slight binding corner bumps. Several light binding stains. VG. ¶ Contents: Indian Theories of Punshment: Fall from Dharma; Retribution; Protection; Expiation; Towards Non-Violent Punitive Policy; Appendix: Gandhian Treatment of Crime; The Non-Violent Theory of Punishment: Western:Why Question the Morale of Punishment? Methodological Considerations; The Moral Criterion of Punishment; Punishment & Crime: Definition of Punishment; Varieties of Punishment; The Meaning of Crime; Decriminialisation; Retribution: A Note on Different Classifications; Etymological Meaning; Appropriateness of Receiving Punishment; Retribution as Censure; Retaliation by the Victim as a Collective Unit; The Measurement of Violent Retribution; The Licence to Punish; Not Punishing the Innocent; Reparation; Retribution has a Future Purpose; Justification of Retaliation Questioned; Deterrence: The Meaning of Deterrence; To Whom is Deterence Addressed? Dos Deterrence Work? Ignorance of the Facts of General Deterence; Defective Psychology; The Measure of Terror; Reformation; Bifurcation of Reform Theories; Enforced Correction; Non- Violent Integration; Individualization of Punishment; Some Misconceptions about Reformation; Incapacitation: Incorrigible Offenders; Meaning & Methods of Incapacitation; Is Incapacitation "Punishment"?; Justiifcation of Incapacitation Morally Douibtful; Violent & Non-Violent Punishment: The Nature of Moral Rules in General; Punitive Hurt is "Violence"; The Division of Theories of Punishment; A Practical Choice between the Violent & the Non-Violent Theories; The Dilemma of Utilitarian Punishment;

Keywords: Moral Philosophy, Non-Violence, Non-Violent, Punishment, Penal Penology, Crime Criminology, Comparative, Indian Gandhian, Retribution