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  title info:
    title: Punishment for the greater good
  name:
    name part: Kolber, Adam J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Over ten million people are incarcerated throughout the world, even though punishment theorists have struggled for centuries to morally justify the practice. Theorists usually address criminal justice under abstract, idealized conditions that assume away real-world uncertainty. We don't have time, however, to wait for a perfect moral theory, and the history of philosophy suggests we will never find it. 'Punishment for the Greater Good' examines the justification of punishment in the here and now, recognizing that we lack certainty about matters of both fact and value.
  table of contents: Cover -- Punishment for the Greater Good -- Copyright -- Summary Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Punishment Theory Here and Now -- I. Introduction -- II. Pure Consequentialism -- III. Standard Retributivism -- IV. Here-​and-​Now Justification -- V. Conclusion -- 2. Axiology Here and Now -- I. Introduction -- II. Utilitarian Axiology -- III. From Utilitarianism to Consequentialism -- IV. Measuring Retributivism -- V. Conclusion -- 3. Shortcut Consequentialism -- I. Introduction -- II. Some Benefits of Consequentialism -- III. The Need for Consequentialist Shortcuts
  table of contents: IV. Conclusion -- 4. Countering Counterintuition -- I. Introduction -- II. Deontological Constraints -- III. Punishment of the Innocent -- IV. Threshold Deontology -- V. Conclusion -- 5. Against Proportionality -- I. Introduction -- II. Proportional What? -- III. Problems for Proportional Harsh Treatment -- IV. Paying Off Desert Debt -- V. Other Kinds of Proportionality -- VI. The Consequentialist Approach -- VII. Conclusion -- 6. Retributivism Is Too Morally Risky -- I. Introduction -- II. The Epistemic Challenge to Retributivism -- III. The Justificatory Standard of Proof
  table of contents: IV. Consequentialist Risks -- V. Conclusion -- 7. Abolish Incarceration, But Not Today -- I. Introduction -- II. Empirical Speculation -- III. Kinds of Abolition -- IV. Reduce Emotion and Radically Experiment -- V. Conclusion -- Index
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Adam J. Kolber.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Punishment
  subject:
    topic: Punishment
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
  subject:
    topic: Imprisonment
  subject:
    topic: Emprisonnement
  subject:
    topic: imprisonment
  subject:
    topic: Sentencing
  subject:
    topic: Criminal Law
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Social services & welfare, criminology
  subject:
    topic: True Crime
  classification: K5101 .K65 2024
  classification: 364.601
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in penal theory and philosophy
  identifier: 9780197672808
  identifier: 0197672809
  identifier: 9780197672792
  identifier: 0197672795
  identifier: 9780197672778
  identifier: 0197672779
  identifier: 9780197672785
  identifier: 0197672787
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 240402
    record change date: 20260319204721.5
    record identifier: in00005726928
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng