Legal and Ethical Retributivism

A Restorative Analysis
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-91406-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Legal Philosophy

This book explores a foundational philosophical tension in contemporary retributivism, revealing ambiguities in its approach to punishment between two conflicting conceptions of restoration: legal justice and ethical love. Through an analysis of the three parties involved in a crime—the victim, the offender, and the state—it argues that neo-retributivism has not sufficiently incorporated the ethical face of punishment into its theoretical framework. The pull of legal justice is often so strong that the voice of ethical love is silenced; neo-retributivism is at an impasse. To navigate this, the book engages with contemporary critical criminal justice scholarship, introducing the ideal of loving justice while highlighting an unresolved tension between penal reformism and abolitionism.

The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Philosophy of Punishment, Criminal Law Theory, Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy and Hegel scholarship.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cesur, Halil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. PART I: DIAGNOSING THE DEADLOCK 1. Two Faces of Retributivism PART II: BACK TO ORIGINS 2. Legal Retributivism 3. Ethical Retributivism PART III: REVIVAL 4. Punishment: Between Vindication and Healing 5. Restorative Retributivism 6. Punishment as Recognition PART IV: BEYOND IMPASSE 7. Seeking a Shared Ground: Between Loving Ethics and Legal Justice. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Halil Cesur, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.