Description: Plato's Penal Code : Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology, Paperback by Saunders, Trevor J., ISBN 0198149603, ISBN-13 9780198149606, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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.
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Book Title: Plato's Penal Code : Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek
Subject Area: Criminal Law
Item Height: 232 mm
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Author: Trevor J. Saunders
Publication Name: Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 716 g
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
