Concerning State Punishment
ABSTRACT
One of the roles of the modern nation-state is to impose legal punishment after violation of criminal law. This conference focused on some of the key issues concerning the justification of punishment in a liberal democracy. What is the appropriate scope of the state's power to sanction? What are the proper aims and justification of the exercise of that power?
READING LIST
Conference Readings
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Bentham, Jeremy, “Punishment and Utility” In Punishment and Rehabilitation, Third Edition, compiled by Jeffrie G. Murphy. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995. Page(s): 21-35.
Braithwaite, John. Crime, Shame and Reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Duff, R. A. Punishment, Communication, and Community. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Duff, R. A. and S. E. Marshall, “Civic Punishment” In Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration, edited by Albert Dzur, Ian Loader, and Richard Sparks, 33-59. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Fuller, Lon L. The Morality of Law (Revised Edition). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
Lacey, Nicola. State Punishment. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Liebling, Alison (assisted by Helen Arnold). Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Murphy, Jeffrie G., “Last Words on Retribution” In The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics, edited by Jonathan Jacobs and Jonathan Jackson, 28-41. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Stuntz, William J. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2011.
von Hirsch, Andrew. Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.