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Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing
paperback. Challenges the paradigm of individual responsibility and examines the idea of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Editor(s): Isaacs, Tracy; Vernon, Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: LBBR; LBBS; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460. 320 pages. Editor(s): Isaacs, Tracy; Vernon, Richard. Challenges the paradigm of individual responsibility and examines the idea of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: LBBR; LBBS; LNF. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight: 460.
Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political theory. But little attention is given to the consequences of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Groups are not amenable to punishment in the way that individuals are. Can they be punished – and if so, how – or are other remedies available? The topic crosses the borders of law, philosophy and political science, and in this volume specialists in all three areas contribute their perspectives. They examine the limits of individual criminal liability in addressing atrocity, the meanings of punishment ... Read more
Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political theory. But little attention is given to the consequences of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Groups are not amenable to punishment in the way that individuals are. Can they be punished – and if so, how – or are other remedies available? The topic crosses the borders of law, philosophy and political science, and in this volume specialists in all three areas contribute their perspectives. They examine the limits of individual criminal liability in addressing atrocity, the meanings of punishment ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521176118
SKU
V9780521176118
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About Roger Hargreaves
Tracy Isaacs is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research (which she also chairs) at the University of Western Ontario. She is co-editor, with Samantha Brennan and Michael Milde, of New Canadian Perspectives in Ethics and Value Theory, and has published articles in a number of philosophical journals including Ethics, Criminal ... Read more
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