Gustavo A. Beade (University of Buenos Aires (UBA)) has posted Book Review: Christopher Heath Wellman, Rights Forfeiture and Punishment (Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2017) on SSRN. Here is excerpt from this paper without an abstract:
Christopher Heath Wellman’s Rights Forfeiture and Punishment is an engaging and carefully written book. It is provocative and challenging. In Wellman’s words this book provides neither a complete account of punishment nor an exhaustive theory of criminal law. More modestly, it seeks to articulate and defend a particular version of forfeiture theory, and then to explore some of this theory’s more striking implications for criminal law (p. 9). I disagree with Wellman’s humble description of his work –the book is much more than that. Wellman attempts to solve many of the most difficult problems in the philosophy of criminal law. I have reservations about many of his conclusions and many of his points of view appear to be underdeveloped. However, I will not draw attention here to what Wellman should have said or to authors whom he should have discussed. In this limited space I will present a sketch of the book and some of the discussions presented by Wellman.