Abstract
Since philosophy is a communal enterprise, it is a particular privilege to hold a philosophical conversation with people whose voices are too often excluded, like my students at the Indiana Women’s Prison. These women taught me that Aristotelian virtue ethics might give us some insight into abusive relationships, and Plato’s tripartite soul can express the intensity of drug addiction.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Bibliography
Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1988.
Berman, Mitchell. “Punishment and Justification.” Ethics, vol. 118, no. 2, pp. 258–290, 2008.
Erisman, Wendy, and Jeanne Bayer Contardo. Learning to Reduce Recidivism: A 50-State Analysis of Postsecondary Correction Education Policy. Washington, DC: The Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2005. Web. 19 Dec 2015. at ix.
Garvey, Stephen P. “Lifting the Veil on Punishment.” 2004. https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/276.
Husak, Douglas. “Why Punish the Deserving?” Nous, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 447–464, 1992.
Kant, Immanuel. The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right. Trans. W. Hastie, B.D. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1887.
Kaplan, Thomas. “Cuomo Drops Plant to Use State Money to Pay for College Classes for Inmates.” New York Times, April 2, 2014.
Locke, John. The Works of John Locke in Nine Volumes. London: Rivington, 1824. Online. pg 113.
———. In Ian Shapiro (ed.), Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Meyers, Stephen J. “Establishing Successful Postsecondary Academic Programs; A Practical Guide.” The Journal of Correctional Education, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 6–26, 2012.
Moore, Michael S. “The Moral Worth of Retribution.” In Ferdinand Schoeman (ed.), Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions: New Essays in Moral Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Morris, Herbert. “Persons and Punishment.” The Monist, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 475–501, 1968.
Murphy, Jeffrie G. “Marxism and Retribution.” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 2, pp. 217–243, 1973.
National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO). Examining Fiscal 2013–2015 State Spending. Washington, DC: Author, 2015.
Nozick, Robert. Philosophical Explanations, pp. 366–374. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Pettit, Phillip. “Republican Theory and Criminal Punishment.” Utilitas, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 59–79, 1997.
Pew Center on the States. One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, 2008. Web. 21 Dec 2015. at 5.
Rosebury, Brian. “The Theory of Offender’s Forfeited Right.” Criminal Justice Ethics, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 259–283, 2015.
Smart, J.J., and Bernard Williams. Utilitarianism: For & Against. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Van Den Haag, Ernest. “The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense of Capital Punishment.” The Harvard Law Review, vol. 99, pp. 1662–1669. Harvard: Harvard Law Review Association, 1986.
Walker, Nigel. Why Punish? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Wellman, Christopher Heath. Rights Forfeiture and Punishment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Kazanjian, M. (2018). Philosophers in Prison: Students in the Indiana Women’s Prison College Program Reflect on Philosophical Theories of Punishment. In: Gardner, M., Weber, M. (eds) The Ethics of Policing and Imprisonment. Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97770-6_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97770-6_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-97769-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-97770-6
eBook Packages: Religion and PhilosophyPhilosophy and Religion (R0)