A Theory of Legal Punishment: Deterrence, Retribution, and the Aims of the State

ISBN-13: 9780367698102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Matthew C. Altman

Opis

This book argues for a mixed view of punishment that balances consequentialism and retributivism. It will be of interest to legal philosophers, social scientists, especially criminologists, sociologists, economists, and political scientists.

O autorze

Matthew C. Altman is Professor of Philosophy at Central Washington University, USA. He is the author of A Companion to Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” (2008) and Kant and Applied Ethics (2011), coauthor of The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (2013), editor of The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (2014) and The Palgrave Kant Handbook (2017), and series editor of Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism and Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law. He has also published numerous articles on applied ethics, philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy.