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philosophy of law that criminals should be punished (retribution ) for the harm they have caused.
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It is worth mentioning that not all naturalists reject retributivism in favor of deterrence or other views that understand punishment as purely instrumental.
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Negative Legal Moralism, like negative retributivism (see Dolinko 1991: 539-43), acts as a side-constraint on our pursuit of the goals that provide our positive reasons for maintaining a system of criminal law, whereas a positive Legal Moralism helps to set those goals.
Theories of Criminal Law Duff, Antony 2008
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It doesn't help, of course, that inmate education and rehabilitation have been systematically de-legitimized and de-funded at the same time that the U.S. has built and operated a record number of new prisons in a spirit of what leading national prisoner "reentry" expert Jeremy Travis calls "robust retributivism."
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It doesn't help, of course, that inmate education and rehabilitation have been systematically de-legitimized and de-funded at the same time that the U.S. has built and operated a record number of new prisons in a spirit of what leading national prisoner "reentry" expert Jeremy Travis calls "robust retributivism."
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: January 2006 Archives 2006
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A word is in order about the relation between deontological morality and retributivism as a theory of punishment.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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The converse relationship between deontology and retributivism is also suspect.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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Yet deontology as such does not require retributivism to be true.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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Some theorists believe that retributivism and deontology go hand in hand, in the sense that one requires the other.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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The retributivist who requires that all and only the guilty be punished can cast this as a categorical demand, in which case the retributivism will be deontological.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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It is better than a pure retributivism because it shows why a system of punishment is needed and how that system is to be nested into the larger political and moral concerns of a just society.
Punishment Bedau, Hugo Adam 2005
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The Brooks Blog: 'The argument appears to be to support an outdated and little held view of retributivism: the pay back model. This view of retributivism—held by few, if any, retributivists for the last twenty years—holds that criminals gain a benefit or advantage when committing crime which, in turn, they owe back to the community. Thus, when a criminal steals a sum of money, the criminal enjoys a benefit and monetary advantage that is unjust: this model argues that the purpose of punishment is to remove the benefit/advantage.'
August 11, 2008