This text examines the main trends in penal theorising over the past three decades. It asks what can justify criminal punishment and then explores the legitemac

The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not o

For many years, Antony Duff has been one of the world's foremost philosophers of criminal law. This volume collects essays by leading criminal law theorists to

This book discusses whether a system of criminal punishment can be justified within our legal system.

Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international colle