01824nam a2200361 a 4500 EDZ0000076742 StDuBDS 20150804193930.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120417s2012 enk fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780191738944 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HV7343 364.941 23 Gross, Hyman. Crime and punishment [electronic resource] : a concise moral critique / Hyman Gross. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (xv, 219 p.) Includes bibliographical references and index. Presenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery. Description based on print version record. Criminal justice, Administration of Great Britain Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of United States Philosophy. Punishment Great Britain Philosophy. Punishment United States Philosophy. Criminal justice, Administration of Moral and ethical aspects Great Britain. Criminal justice, Administration of Moral and ethical aspects United States. Punishment Moral and ethical aspects Great Britain. Punishment Moral and ethical aspects United States. Print version 9780199644711 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644711.001.0001 37293 37293