Justice through apologies : remorse, reform, and punishment

"In this follow up to I was wrong: the meanings of apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as unjustifiable humiliation, this book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to br...

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Auteur principal : Smith Nick (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Justice through apologies : remorse, reform, and punishment / Nick Smith,...
Publié : New York (NY) : Cambridge University Press , cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-402 p.)
Sujets :
  • Introduction. 1. The categorical apology revisited
  • Part one. The penitent and the penitentiary : apologies in criminal law
  • 2. Against court-ordered apologies
  • 3. Apology reductions in criminal law
  • Part two. Apologies in civil law
  • 4. The institutional framework : economic outcomes and non-economic values
  • 5. A practical framework for evaluating apologies in civil contexts
  • Concluding call for collaboration