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Punishment and Responsibility$
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H.L.A. Hart and John Gardner

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199534777

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534777.001.0001

PROLEGOMENON TO THE PRINCIPLES OF PUNISHMENT

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(p. 1 ) I PROLEGOMENON TO THE PRINCIPLES OF PUNISHMENT
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Punishment and Responsibility
Author(s):

H. L. A. Hart

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534777.003.0001

This chapter provides a framework for the discussion of the mounting perplexities which now surround the institution of criminal punishment. It shows that any morally tolerable account of this institution must exhibit it as a compromise between distinct and partly conflicting principles.

Keywords:   criminal punishment, distribution, justification, excuse, mitigation

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