Enforcement of Legal Duties: Prevention, Punishment, Reparations

FAIN: FT-11714-73

Lawrence A. Alexander
University of San Diego (San Diego, CA 92110-8001)

To examine several theories of punishment, the role of chance in punishment, the relation of punishment to civil liability and the relation of moral problems surrounding crime with those of war in order to ascertain how we are morally entitled to respond to those who have breached legal obligations who are threatening to do so.