An Expressive Theory of Punishment

ISBN-13: 9781137357113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 188 str.

William Wringe

Opis

This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals.

O autorze

Bill Wringe is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews and Leeds, and has published widely on a range of topics in ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of mind, including collective intentionality and obligation, punishment, emotion and perceptual states.