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Punishing Criminals: Concerning a Very Old and Painful Question

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The classic statement about society's need and obligation to punish the wrongdoer—for the serious student of criminal behavior as well as for all those who are disturbed by the growing tide of lawlessness.

Author(s): Ernest van den Haag
Publisher: Basic Books, Inc.
Year: 1975

Language: English
Pages: 308
City: New York
Tags: Punishing, Criminals, Ernest, van den Haag, Death Penalty, Crime, Right, Punishment, Justice

Contents
Acknowledgments
PART ONE THE INSTITUTION OF PUNISHMENT
I To Secure These Rights
II Retribution, Vengeance, and the Future
Ill Justice and Utility
IV Justice, Order, Charity
V Utilitarian Functions of Punishment
VI Some Indirect Effects of Punishment
PART TWO CONTROLLING CRIME
VII What Causes Crime?
VIII Poverty
IX Black and White
X Free Will, Responsibility, Rationality, Deterrahility
XI Are They Sick?
XII Addiction
XIII Does Punishment Deter? Statistical and Experimental Evidence
XIV Dimensions of Crime
XV What Can Be Done to Curb Crime?
PART THREE KINDS OF PUNISHMENT
XVI Philosophical Quandaries
XVII The Decline of Corporal Punishment
XVIII The Death Penalty. Arguments For
XIX The Death Penalty: Arguments Against
XX Fines
XXI Who Should Be Imprisoned?
XXII A Note on Confinement and the Operation of Prisons
XXIII Epilogue
Notes
Index