TY - BOOK ID - 80876064 TI - Punishment, compensation, and law : a theory of enforceability PY - 2005 SN - 9780511130496 051113049X 9786610416066 6610416060 0511128967 9780511128967 0521846692 110715247X 1280416068 0511182260 0511199651 0511300220 0511499248 0521174236 9780521846691 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Obedience (Law) KW - Law enforcement. KW - Punishment KW - Compensation (Law) KW - Law KW - Enforcement of law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Legal obligation KW - Obligation, Legal KW - Obligation to obey the law KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy KW - Policing KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80876064 AB - When it was originally published in 2005, this book was the first comprehensive study of the meaning and measure of enforceability. While we have long debated what restraints should govern the conduct of our social life, we have paid relatively little attention to the question of what it means to make a restraint enforceable. Focusing on the enforceability of legal rights but also addressing the enforceability of moral rights and social conventions, Mark Reiff explains how we use punishment and compensation to make restraints operative in the world. After describing the various means by which restraints may be enforced, Reiff explains how the sufficiency of enforcement can be measured, and he presents a unified theory of deterrence, retribution, and compensation that shows how these aspects of enforceability are interconnected. Reiff then applies his theory of enforceability to illuminate a variety of real-world problem situations. ER -