Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology
Trevor J. Saunders
This book assesses Plato's penal code within the tradition of Greek penology. Saunders provides a detailed exposition of the emergence of the concept of publicly controlled, rationally calculated, and socially directed punishment in the period between Homer and Plato. He outlines the serious debate that ensued in the fifth century over the opposition by philosophers to popular judicial assumptions, and shows how the philosophical arguments gradually gained ground. He demonstrates that Plato advanced the most radical of the philosophical formulations of the concept of punishment in his Laws, arguing that punishment is or should be utilitarian and strictly reformative. This first comprehensive and detailed study of Plato's penology gives deserved attention to the works of a most important political and legal thinker.
年:
1994
出版社:
Oxford University Press, USA
语言:
english
页:
432
ISBN 10:
0198149603
ISBN 13:
9780198149606
系列:
Clarendon Paperbacks
文件:
PDF, 2.38 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1994