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Justice and punishment the rationale of coercion

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  • "This book aims to answer the question: 'why, and by what right,do some people punish others?' With his groundbreaking new theory, the author argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a larger political and moral theory. The author uses the problem of punishment to undermine contemporary accounts of justice. - ;This book aims to answer the question: 'why, and by what right do some people punish others?' The author argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a substantive political and moral theory. Matravers questions why it is that recent theories of distributive justice have had so little to say about the punishment and retributive justice. His answer is that contemporary theories of justice cannot explain the relationship of justice and morality more broadly conceived. As this is also the relationship that a theory of punishment needs to explain, it is in examining the problem of punishment that the limitations of contemporary theories of justice are most starkly exposed. Moreover, the limitations are such as to undermine these accounts of justice. The claim is that it is through the discussion of punishment that the inadequacies of contemporary theories of justice is demonstrated and it is therefore through the discussion of punishment that those inadequacies can be rectified."
  • "Why, and by what right, do some people punish others? In this text, the author argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a larger political and moral theory."

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  • "Llibres electrònics"
  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Justice and Punishment"
  • "Justice and punishment the rationale of coercion"
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  • "Justice and Punishment : The Rationale of Coercion"
  • "Justice and punishment : the rationale of coercition"
  • "Justice and Punishment : the Rationale of Coercion"
  • "Justice and Punishment the Rationale of Coercion"
  • "Justice and punishment : the rationale of coercion"
  • "Justice and Punishment: The Rationale of Coercion"

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