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Punishment and Responsibility

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Punishment and Responsibility

By H. L. A. Hart

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About the book

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt and innocence. He also provides an account of criminal responsibility that links the distinction between guilt and innocen...Show more

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ISBN

9780199534777

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Punishment and Responsibility

Format

Hardcover

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