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:	9781137357120
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/26/2016
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	268 KB

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