Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment

466 Pages·2015·5.315 MB·English

by  Gertrude Ezorsky (ed.)

Philosophical
Perspectives on
Punishment
Second Edition

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Philosophical
Perspectives on
Punishment
Second Edition
Edited by
Gertrude Ezorsky

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ezorsky, Gertrude, 1926– compiler.
Philosophical perspectives on punishment / edited by Gertrude Ezorsky.
-- Second edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4384-5855-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4384-5857-1 (e-book)
1. Punishment. I. Title.
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For Michael Jacobson
whose work made this book possible.

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Contents
Gertrude Ezorsky The Ethics of Punishment xi
Chapter One: Concepts of Punishment
Thomas Hobbes Of Punishments and Rewards 3
A. M. Quinton On Punishment 6
Kurt Baier Is Punishment Retributive? 16
Joel Feinberg The Expressive Function of
Punishment 25
Chapter Two: The Justification of Punishment
1. teleological theories
Plato Punishment as Cure 39
J. E. McTaggart Hegel’s Theory of Punishment 42
Jeremy Bentham Utility and Punishment 58
H. Rashdall Punishment and the Individual 66
T. L. S. Sprigge A Utilitarian Reply to
Dr. McCloskey 68
John Austin Rule Utilitarianism (I) 82
John Rawls Rule Utilitarianism (II) 84
Richard Brandt Rule Utilitarianism (III) 95
2.
retributivism
Immanuel Kant Justice and Punishment 107
G. W. F. Hegel Punishment as a Right 112
F. H. Bradley The Vulgar Notion of Responsibility 114
G. E. Moore An Organic Unity 116
Herbert Morris Persons and Punishment 121
H. J. McCloskey A Non-Utilitarian Approach to
Punishment 125

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3. teleological retributivism
St. Thomas Aquinas Whether Vengeance is Lawful 143
K. G. Armstrong The Right to Punish 144
A. C. Ewing On “Retributivism” 145
D. Daiches Raphael Justice 150
H. L. A. Hart Principles of Punishment 153
J. D. Mabbott Punishment 165
Chapter Three: The Death Penalty
Royal Commission The Deterrent Value of Capital
Punishment 185
Hon. Mr. Gilpin Speech Against Capital
Punishment 1868 198
John Stuart Mill Speech in Favor of Capital
Punishment 1868 208
Clarence Darrow Negative Presentation Address 216
Ernest Van den Haag The Death Penalty Once More 226
Chapter Four: Groups Punished
Michelle Alexander Blacks and Hispanics 245
Michael Tonry Blacks and Hispanics 264
Correctional Association Women in Prison 272
Jeffrey Reiman and Poor More Likely to be Punished
Paul Leighton for Same Crime? 281
Chapter Five: Prison Labor
Rania Khalek Prison Labor 285
Paul Wright Slaves of the State 295

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Chapter Six: Solitary Confinement
Human Rights Watch Teens in Solitary Confinement 303
Sasha Abramsky Supermax Security Prisons
are Inhumane 307
Chapter Seven: Possible Alternatives to Punishment
Bernard Shaw Imprisonment 319
Samuel Butler Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited 338
Karl Marx Punishment and Society 347
Clarence Darrow The Holdup Man 350
Bertrand Russell Roads to Freedom 355
Jackson Toby Is Punishment Necessary 361
Michael Hakeem Critique of Psychiatric Approach
to Crime and Correction 374
Bibliography 425

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