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An Expressive Theory of Punishment

By:William Wringe
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137357113
eText ISBN:9781137357120
Edition:0
Copyright:2016
Format:Reflowable

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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.