The Ethics of Punishment
Gertrude Ezorsky
1. Concepts of Punishment
Of Punishments and Rewards
Thomas Hobbes
On Punishment
A. M. Quinton
Is Punishment Retributive?
Kurt Baier
The Expressive Function of Punishment
Joel Feinberg
2. The Justification of Punishment
Teleological Theories
Punishment as Cure
Plato
Hegel’s Theory of Punishment
J. E. McTaggart
Utility and Punishment
Jeremy Bentham
Punishment and the Individual
H. Rashdall
A Utilitarian Reply to Dr. McCloskey
T. L. S. Sprigge
Rule Utilitarianism (I)
John Austin
Rule Utilitarianism (II)
John Rawls
Rule Utilitarianism (III)
Richard Brandt
Retributivism
Justice and Punishment
Immanuel Kant
Punishment as a Right
G. W. F. Hegel
The Vulgar Notion of Responsibility
F. H. Bradley
An Organic Unity
G. E. Moore
Persons and Punishment
Herbert Morris
A Non-Utilitarian Approach to Punishment
H. J. McCloskey
Teleological Retributivism
Whether Vengeance is Lawful
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Right to Punish
K. G. Armstrong
On “Retributivism”
A. C. Ewing
Justice
D. Daiches Raphael
Principles of Punishment
H. L. A. Hart
Punishment
J. D. Mabbott
3. The Death Penalty
The Deterrent Value of Capital Punishment
Royal Commission
Speech Against Capital Punishment 1868
Hon. Mr. Gilpin
Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment 1868
John Stuart Mill
Negative Presentation Address
Clarence Darrow
The Death Penalty Once More
Ernest Van den Haag
4. Groups Punished
Blacks and Hispanics
Michelle Alexander
Blacks and Hispanics
Michael Tonry
Women in Prison
Correctional Association
Poor More Likely to be Punished for Same Crime?
Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton
5. Prison Labor
Prison Labor
Rania Khalek
Slaves of the State
Paul Wright
6. Solitary Confinement
Teens in Solitary Confinement
Human Rights Watch
Supermax Security Prisons are Inhumane
Sasha Abramsky
7. Possible Alternatives to Punishment
Imprisonment
Bernard Shaw
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
Samuel Butler
Punishment and Society
Karl Marx
The Holdup Man
Clarence Darrow
Roads to Freedom
Bertrand Russell
Is Punishment Necessary
Jackson Toby
Critique of Psychiatric Approach to Crime and Correction
Michael Hakeem
Bibliography