NCJ Number
99739
Journal
American Political Science Review Volume: 77 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1983) Pages: 858-870
Date Published
1983
Length
13 pages
Annotation
Hegel's theory of crime and punishment is tested by raising against it three difficult questions: Why must we punish the criminal? Must the punishment fit the crime? Is insanity an acceptable defense?
Abstract
It is argued that a Hegelian approach can generate plausible answers to these questions, answers that help to explain and justify a number of our own morally implicated practices. It is further argued that Hegel's method of arriving at such answers is by no means alien to those employed by contemporary analytic philosophers. (Author abstract)