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Punishment, Communication, and Community
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 44.99The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing about punishment offers a variety of... more...
Philosophy and the Criminal Law
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 87.00Five legal theorists discuss a range of questions on the nature of the philosophy of criminal law. more...
Punishment, Compensation, and Law
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00This book is the first comprehensive study of the problem of the enforceability of restraint. Focusing on the enforceability of legal rights, but also addressing the enforceability of moral rights and social conventions, Mark Reiff explains how we use punishment and compensation to make restraints operative in the world. more...
Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00In this provocative book, Alexander offers a sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right. He examines the various contexts in which a right to freedom of expression might be asserted and concludes that such a right cannot be supported in any of these contexts. more...
Norms in a Wired World
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 51.00Using informal game theory in the analysis of norms and customs, Hetcher breaks new ground by applying his theory of norms to tort law and Internet privacy laws. This book will appeal to students and professionals in law, philosophy, and political and social theory. more...
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 25.00Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth, Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. more...
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