An Expressive Theory of Punishment

by William Wringe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137357113
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE PARADIGMATIC CASE
1.Punishment – Some Questions Philosophers Ask.
2.Punishment, Harsh Treatment And Suffering
3.Punishment As Expression: Who, What, To Whom?
4.Expression, Publicity and Harsh Treatment
PART II: NON-PARADIGMATIC PUNISHMENTS
5.Perp-Walks as Punishment
6. Punishing War Crimes
7.Punishing Corporations
8.Punishing States