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What is Justice and Punishment : The Rationale of Coercion about?
This book aims to answer the question: 'why, and by what right do some people punish others?' The author argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a substantive political and moral theory. Matravers questions why it is that recent theories of distributive justice have had so little to say about the punishment and retributive justice. His answer is that contemporary theories of justice cannot explain the relationship of justice and morality more broadlyconceived. As this is
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- Author
- Matt Matravers
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585348087
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- History, Law, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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