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Retribution, Justice, and Therapy

Essays in the Philosophy of Law

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  • © 1979

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Authors:
  1. Jeffrie G. Murphy

    1. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 16)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Rights, Justice, and the Social Contract

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Killing of the Innocent

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 3-25

    3. Rights and Borderline Cases

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 26-39

    4. Violence and the Socratic Theory of Legal Fidelity

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 40-57

    5. Hume and Kant on the Social Contract

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 58-73

  3. Punishment and Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Three Mistakes about Retributivism

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 77-81

    3. Kant’s Theory of Criminal Punishment

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 82-92

    4. Marxism and Retribution

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 93-115

    5. Involuntary Acts and Criminal Liability

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 116-127

    6. Moral Death: A Kantian Essay on Psychopathy

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 128-143

  4. Therapeutic Intervention

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Criminal Punishment and Psychiatric Fallacies

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 147-158

    3. Preventive Detention and Psychiatry

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 159-164

    4. Incompetence and Paternalism

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 165-182

    5. Total Institutions and the Possibility of Consent to Organic Therapies

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 183-201

  5. Death and the Supreme Court

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Rationality and the Fear of Death

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 205-222

    3. Cruel and Unusual Punishments

      • Jeffrie G. Murphy
      Pages 223-249
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About this book

One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the sum of its parts. When this happens, as I hope it does in the present case, it is because the essays pursue related themes in such a way that, together, they at least form a start toward the development of a systematic theory on the common foundations supporting the particular claims in the particular articles. With respect to this collection, the essays can all be read as particular ways of pursuing the following general pattern of thought: that a commitment to justice and a respect for rights (and not social utility) must be the foundation of any morally acceptable legal order; that a social contractarian model is the best way to illuminate this foundation; that a retributive theory of punish­ ment is the only theory of punishment resting on such a foundation and thus is the only morally acceptable theory of punishment; that the twentieth century's faddish movement toward a "scientific" or therapeutic response to crime runs grave risks of undermining the foundations of justice and rights on which the legal order ought to rest; and, finally, that the legitimate worry about the tendency of the behavioral sciences to undermine the values of

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Jeffrie G. Murphy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Retribution, Justice, and Therapy

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

  • Authors: Jeffrie G. Murphy

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9461-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0998-1Published: 31 July 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0999-8Published: 31 July 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9461-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 255

  • Topics: Philosophy of Law

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