Farah Focquaert is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at Ghent University in Belgium. She is one of the Directors of the international Justice Without Retribution Network and the Founder and Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee at The Forensic Psychiatric Centers Ghent/Antwerp in Belgium.

Elizabeth Shaw

is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She is the Founder and one of the Directors of the international Justice Without Retribution Network. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, involving criminal law, philosophy, and neuroethics.

Bruce N. Waller

is Professor of Philosophy at Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA. Among his recent books are Against Moral Responsibility (2011), The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility (2015), Restorative Free Will (2015), and The Injustice of Punishment (2018).

Introduction Part I: Theories of Punishment and Contemporary Perspectives 1. Theories of Punishment 2. Retribution 3. Offenders as Citizens 4. Hybrid Theories of Punishment 5. Limiting Retributivism and Individual Prevention 6. The Contours of a Utilitarian Theory of Punishment in Light of Contemporary Empirical Knowledge about the Attainment of Traditional Sentencing Objectives 7. The Restorative Justice Movement: Questioning the Rationale of Contemporary Criminal Justics Part II: Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment 8. Defamiliarizing Punishment 9. The Retributive Sentiments 10. The Right to Punish 11. Problem of Proportional Punishment 12. The Gap 13. Science and the Evolution of American Criminal Punishment 14. What is Wrong with Mass Incarceration? Part III: Sciences, Prevention, and Punishment 15. Punishment, Shaming, and Violence 16. Humanizing Prison through Social Neuroscience: From the Abolition of Solitary Confinement to the Pursuit of Socual Rehabilitation 17. Effects of Prison Crowding on Prison Misconduct and Bullying 18. Biosocial Risk Factors for Offending 19. Brain Abnormalities Associated with Pedophilia: Implications for Retribution and Rehabilitation 20. Current Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience and Criminal Punishment 21. Behavioural Genetics and Sentencing 22. Prediction, Screening and Early Intervention 23. Comparison of Socio-Affective Processing across Subtypes of Antisocial Psychopathology 24. Forensic Mental Health Treatment and Recidivism 25. Recovery of Persons Labelled "Not Criminally Responsible": Recommendations Grounded in Lived Experiences Part IV: Alternatives to Current Punishment Practices 26. Punishment and Its Alternatives 27. Pre-Trial Detention and the Supplantating of our Adversarial System 28. A Non-Punitive Alternative to Retributive Punishment 29. The Takings Doctrine and the Principle of Legality 30. How to Transform a Static Security Prison into a Dynamic Organism for Change and Growth 31. Towards a Strengths-Based Focus in the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Using Offenders

Philosophers, legal scholars, criminologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked important questions about punishment: What is its purpose? What theories help us better understand its nature? Is punishment just? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the relationships between punishment and our biology, psychology, and social environment?¿ How is punishment understood and administered differently in different societies? The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment is the first major reference work to address these and other important questions in detail, offering 31 chapters from an international and interdisciplinary team of experts in a single, comprehensive volume. It covers the major theoretical approaches to punishment and its alternatives; emerging research from biology, psychology, and social neuroscience; and important special issues like the side-effects of punishment and solitary confinement, racism and stigmatization, the risk and protective factors for antisocial behavior, and victims' rights and needs.¿
The Handbook is conveniently organized into four sections:
I. Theories of Punishment and Contemporary Perspectives
II. Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment
III. Sciences, Prevention, and Punishment
IV. Alternatives to Current Punishment Practices
A volume introduction and a comprehensive index help make The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment essential reading for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students in disciplines such as philosophy, law, criminology, psychology, and forensic psychiatry, and highly relevant to a variety of other disciplines such as political and social sciences, behavioral and neurosciences, and global ethics. It is also an ideal resource for anyone interested in current theories, research, and programs dealing with the problem of punishment.