In Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy, Arthur Shuster offers an insightful study of punishment in the works of Plato, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Becca

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Fifty distinguished contributors survey the entire history of political philosophy. They consider questions about how the subject should best be studied; they e

Contemporary philosophy still lacks a satisfying theory of punishment, one that adequately addresses our basic moral concerns. Yet, as the crisis of incarcerati