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This book explores the connections between punishment theory and punishment practice

It shines a much-needed light on the relation between how punishment is experienced by those subjected to it (and others), and the more general consideration of what justifies punishment in the first place.

Leading experts in the field weigh up what is appropriate punishment – both in quantitative and in non-quantitative ways. It explains why punishment is so difficult to justify, looks at the compatibility of modes and processes of penal sanctions, and explore how best to achieve the aspiration to set reasonable terms for future coexistence through state punishment.

The book addresses key topics such as life imprisonment, what is at stake when we use prisons to punish, and how criminal offenders can be successfully integrated into society. It considers how we know whether we over-punish offenders, what we should do in response to excessive punishment, and the possibility of replacing punitive systems with non-punitive ones.

Overall, the book makes a groundbreaking contribution to the philosophy of punishment, explicitly connecting general, abstract questions about the moral and political justification of punishment with empirical insight into the realities and experiences of punishment practices.

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Leo Zaibert, Alison Liebling, and Ben Crewe (University of Cambridge, UK)
1. The Hard Problem of Punishment, Leo Zaibert (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Why is Punishment so Stubbornly Problematic?, Jonathan Jacobs (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA)
3. Saving Retributivism from Revenge: Why Retributivism Needs Empirical Monitoring, Netanel Dagan and Adiel Zimran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
4. Rethinking Criminal Justice Practice: Punishment's Deep and Tendential Abolition, Alan Norrie (University of Warwick, UK)
5. Unifying Penal Theory and Penal Practice: How to Improve the Ethics of Punishment, Jesper Ryberg (Roskilde University, Denmark)
6. Offenders Betrayed, Gabrielle Watson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
7. Prison Conditions as Civic Betrayal: The Significance of Brutality and Race, Ekow Yankah (University of Michigan, USA)
8. Integrating Criminal Offenders into Society: A Normative Framework for Habilitative Imprisonment, Hadassa Noorda (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
9. Punishment by Society?, Alice Ievins, Ellen Reeves, and Shadd Maruna (University of Liverpool, UK)
10. Prisons, Punishment and Destructive Suffering, Alison Liebling (University of Cambridge, UK)
11. Suffering, Retribution, and Moral Accountability in the Contemporary Life Sentence, Ben Jarman (University of Southampton, UK) and Ben Crewe (University of Cambridge, UK)
12. How to Determine Whether the State Over (or Under)-Punishes Crime, Julian Roberts (University of Oxford)
13. A Defence of Penal Subjectivism in Theory and Practice, David Hayes (The University of Sheffield, UK)
14. Nicola Padfield “Weighing up Appropriate Punishment: Can Sensibility Help?, David Hayes (The University of Sheffield, UK)
15. Theorising State Punishment: Theory and Practice?, Matt Matravers (University of York, UK)
16. Not Just 'How Much', but 'How', Should we Punish? Searching for the Mean, Antony Duff and Sandra Marshall (University of Stirling, UK)

Product details

Published 07 Jan 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 352
ISBN 9781509990627
Imprint Hart Publishing
Series Studies in Penal Theory and Ethics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Leo Zaibert

Leo Zaibert is the Andreas von Hirsch Professor of…

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Alison Liebling

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Cr…

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Ben Crewe

Ben Crewe is Professor of Criminology and Deputy D…

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