Introduction
1: For a comprehensive theory
2: For a consequentialist theory
3: Identifying a comprehensive, consequentialist target
4: The Republican idea
5: Interpreting the Republican theory
6: Implementing the Republican theory
7: Retributivism: An inferior theory
8: Retributivism: An inferior practice
9: Conclusion
A new approach to punishment
`The substantial detail of this approach is often interesting, and
important: in particular, its attention to wider aspects of the
criminal justice system ... their republican theory is a fertil
source of new perspectives and new ideas. It should provoke and
stimulate anyone who is concerened about criminal justice.'
The Philosophical Review, Vol 102, No 3 (July 1993)
`Well-written, thought-provoking and tightly argued book ... The
authors of this lively book, by redirecting us back to the question
of the extent to which the criminal justice system does, in fact,
serve a useful purpose, have set an agenda which will undoubtedly
provoke much debate.'
Roger Hood, Times Literary Supplement
'Ambitious and wide-ranging book ... It would make a stimulating
text for use in undergraduate classes.' Mind
'In their impressive book Braithwaite and Pettit present a
comprehensive theory of criminal justice that integrates a theory
of punishment and sentencing with accounts of police powers,
prosecutorial discretion, and other areas in which harmful conduct
is dealt with ... an excellent work that combines theoretical
sophistication with significant practical proposals.'
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
`This deep, important book explicating a normative theory of
criminal justice ... effectively challenges a current vogue among
both scholars and practitioners - the idea of just deserts; and it
does a good job of substituting a new approach which the authors
call "republican" theory. The authors, a criminologist and a
philosopher, combine their considerable expertise to provide a
well-reasoned and empirically grounded argument that the promotion
of social
freedom ought to be the primary goal of the criminal justice system
... What makes this book so compelling is that normative ideas are
operationalized in the context of a hard-nosed understanding of
both
criminal behavior and the working realities of the criminal justice
system.' James P. Levine, Law and Politics Book Review
`a sophisticated consequentialist justification of punishment' Paul
Noordhof, Journal of Applied Philosophy
`an excellent book, a very felicitous combination of philosophy and
criminology' Wojciech Sadurski, Law and Philosophy
'This deep, important book explicating a normative theory of
criminal justice requires careful study; it is not bedtime reading.
What makes this book so compelling is that normative ideals are
operationalized in the context of a hard-nosed understanding of
both criminal behavior and the working realities of the criminal
justice system. The greatest tribute I can pay to this book is that
it has caused me to rethink my own position on the just deserts
idea
... well worth reading.'
James P. Levine, City University of New York, The Law and Politics
Book Review
'This deep, important book explicating a normative theory of
criminal justice requires careful study; it is not bedtime reading.
It effectively challenges a current vogue among both scholars and
practitioners - the idea of just deserts; and it does a good job of
substituting a new approach which the authors call "republican"
theory ... Maximizing "dominion" through "decrementalism" is an
iconoclastic idea well worth pondering, and this little book
that
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reading.'
The Law and Politics Book Review
'well written ... well worth reading and free of unnecessary
jargon'
Michael Levi, Criminal Law Review
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