Law
Tobias Zürcher
Legitimation von Strafe
Die expressiv-kommunikative Straftheorie zur moralischen Rechtfertigung von Strafe
[The Legitimation of Punishment. The Expressivist-Communicative Theory of Punishment for the Moral Justification of Punishment.]
unrevised e-book edition 2020; Original edition 2014; 2014. XIII, 201 pages.
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Published in German.
Is legal punishment justified? Tobias Zürcher examines and rejects classical approaches, based on retribution and consequence, to the moral justification of punishment. He advocates a concept of punishment as a moral practice that is justified when its objective is essentially communicative. Some common forms of punishment meet the conditions of this expressivist theory, but not all.