Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment

Gertrude Ezorsky is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Moral Rights in the Workplace, also published by SUNY Press.

• The Ethics of Punishment Gertrude Ezorsky1. Concepts of PunishmentOf Punishments and RewardsThomas HobbesOn PunishmentA. M. QuintonIs Punishment Retributive?Kurt BaierThe Expressive Function of PunishmentJoel Feinberg2. The Justification of PunishmentTeleological Theories Punishment as CurePlatoHegel’s Theory of Punishment J. E. McTaggartUtility and Punishment Jeremy BenthamPunishment 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 PunishmentImmanuel Kant Punishment as a Right G. W. F. HegelThe Vulgar Notion of Responsibility F. H. BradleyAn 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 PenaltyThe Deterrent Value of Capital Punishment Royal Commission Speech Against Capital Punishment 1868Hon. Mr. Gilpin Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment 1868John Stuart Mill Negative Presentation Address Clarence Darrow The Death Penalty Once More Ernest Van den Haag 4. Groups PunishedBlacks 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 LaborPrison Labor Rania Khalek Slaves of the State Paul Wright 6. Solitary ConfinementTeens in Solitary Confinement Human Rights Watch Supermax Security Prisons are Inhumane Sasha Abramsky 7. Possible Alternatives to PunishmentImprisonment 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