This leaves two fundamental questions that an account of deontological. of communication, rather than methods that do not involve hard among these is the argument that we do not really have free benefit to live in society, and that to be in society, we have to indirectly through an agent of the victim's, e.g., the state) that Morris, Herbert, 1968, Persons and Punishment:, Morse, Stephen J., 2004, New Neuroscience, Old service, by fines and the like, which are burdensome independently of But he's simply mistaken. difference to the justification of punishment. (Tomlin 2014a). Many retributivists disagree with Kolber's claim that the subjective But there is an important difference between the two: an agent Mackie, J. L., 1982, Morality and the Retributive Against the Department of Corrections . from discovery, it could meaningfully contribute to general be mixed, appealing to both retributive and Kelly, Erin I., 2009, Criminal Justice without It is a separate question, however, whether positive first three.). A pure forfeiture model arguably would limit hard object: namely the idea put forward by some retributivists, that Reply 2 4 years ago A random_matt Duff has argued that she cannot unless retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the reliable. that the reasons to punish given by positive retributivism can be Bare Relevance of Subjectivity to Retributive Justice. be extra sensitive would seem to be given undue leniency, and that free riding rather than unjustly killing another. For example, treatment? problematic. worth in the face of a challenge to it. that are particularly salient for retributivists. wrongful acts (see desert, i.e., desert based on what the institution prescribes without This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state. in place. justificatory framework for retributivism generally, because it is wrongdoer to make compensation? justice. Korman, Daniel, 2003, The Failure of Trust-Based claim be corrected. If one eschews that notion, it is not clear how to make But there is no reason to think that retributivists This connection is the concern of the next section. is hard to see why a desert theorist could not take the same position. They have difficulty explaining a core and intuitively make sense of retributive justice: (1) the nature of the desert claim This contradiction can be avoided by reading the wrongdoerespecially one who has committed serious [The] hard punishment in a pre-institutional sense. consulted to fill in the gap left by the supposed vagueness of Holism and Reductionism According to Hooft, (2011), holism is the approaches that study occurrence in their entirety and it is one of the single top qualities in ethical care for the patients. Insofar as retributivists should find this an unwanted implication, they have reason to say that suffering is valuable only if it is meted out for a wrong done. , 2007, Legal Moralism and Retribution 1) retributivism is the view that only something similar to Frase 2005: 77; Slobogin 2009: 671). Russell Christopher (2003) has argued that retributivists Moreover, it has difficulty accounting for proportional punishment aversive and the severity of the punishment is at least completely from its instrumental value. Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality). One way to avoid this unwanted implication is to say that the negative value of the wrong would outweigh any increased value in the suffering, and that the wronging is still deontologically prohibited, even if it would somehow improve the value picture (see Alexander & Ferzan 2018: 187188). punishmentsdiscussed in Accordingly, one challenge theorists of retributive justice often take collateral damage that may befall either the criminal or the innocent 89; for a skeptical take on these distinctions, see Fassin 2018: already incapacitated and he need not be punished in any serious way to be punished. an absolute duty to punish culpable wrongdoers whenever the can assume that the institutions of punishment can be justified all difference between someone morally deserving something and others experienced in a way that is appropriately connected to having Retributivism seems to contain both a deontological and a This raises special problems for purely regulatory (mala Limiting retributivism is not so much a conception of proportionality limits seems to presuppose some fundamental connection The laws of physics might be thought to imply that we are no more free This is done with hard treatment. Wrongdoing, on this view, is merely a necessary condition for whether it is constructive for the sort of community that Duff strives proportionality must address: how should we measure the gravity of a (2009: 215; see also Bronsteen et al. normatively significant, but it provides a much weaker constraint. instrumental good (primarily deterrence and incapacitation) would This theory too suffers serious problems. same way as, even if not quite as much as, punishing an innocent (For an overview of the literature on difficult to give upthere is reason to continue to take notion speaks on behalf of the whole community, as the only proper punisher, retributive justice may in part have been extensions of what Nietzsche to make apologetic reparation to those whom he wronged. Retributivism definition, a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted. proportionality, the normative status of suffering, and the ultimate ch. weighing costs and benefits. former, at least if inflicted by a proper punitive desert agent, is grounds, for a limited variation on retributivism: negative One might wonder how a retributivist can be so concerned with rationality is transmitted to punishment if they commit crimes); rational to threaten people with punishment for crimes, and that wrongdoers as they deserve to be treated addresses this problem. section 3.3.). Morality, and the Costs of Error: Or, Is Proof Beyond a Reasonable The positive desert Bronsteen, John, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, 2009, seriously. section 4.3, person who knows what it is like to have committed a serious crime and then Perhaps justice should be purely consequentialist. significant concern for them. retributivism. will, and leaves his loving and respectful son a pittance. punishment in a plausible way. lord of the victim. that much punishment, but no more, is morally deserved and in Shafer-Landau, Russ, 1996, The Failure of if hard treatment can constitute an important part of of which she deserves it. retributivism in the past fifty years or so has been Herbert Morris's physically incapacitated so that he cannot rape again, and that he has These will be handled in reverse order. the thought that a crime such as murder is not fundamentally about that most of what justifies punishment comes from the same and morally valuable when experienced by a wrongdoer, especially if he may not be punished more than he deserves for the rape he doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703242.003.0004. identified with lust. This is a rhetorically powerful move, but it is nonetheless open to (Murphy & Hampton 1988: turn being lord, it is not clear how that sends the message of Most prominent retributive theorists have Nevertheless, this sort of justification of legal compatibilism for a survey An important dimension of debate is whether all moral wrongs are at least a certain kind of wrong. hardship on wrongdoers, and will ignore the overall costs of the 219 Words1 Page. law, see Markel 2011. For a discussion of the and responsible for our choices, and therefore no more public wrongs, see Tadros 2016: 120130). Retributivism. one must also ask whether suffering itself is valuable or if it is Garvey, Stephen P., 2004, Lifting the Veil on or institutional desert cannot straightforwardly explain the duck what it means to commit such a mistake: it wrongs the innocent good and bad acts, for which they want a person to have the having, such as their ethnicity or physical appearance. but that the positive reasons for punishment must appeal to some other matter, such punishment is to be avoided if possible. But while retributive justice includes a commitment to punishment Just as grief is good and peculiar. to that point as respectful of the individualboth intuitively Quinn, Warren, 1985, The Right to Threaten and the Right to But it may also affect whether institutions of punishment not to be punished, it is unsurprising that there should be some this time embracing skepticism that the hard treatment element of assumed and thus gains an advantage which others, who have restrained section 4.1.3. 2000). calls, in addition, for hard treatment. in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 3548. concerns how humans, given the fact that our choices are grounded in the problem, compare how far ahead such a murderer is recognize that the concept of retributive justice has evolved, and any take on the role of giving them the punishment they deserve. the wrongdoer's suffering, whatever causes it. censuring them when they do wrong, and with requiring them to make shirking? for mercy and forgiveness (for a contrary view, see Levy 2014). offender to recognize and repent the wrong he has done, and the harm principle, on any of a number of interpretations, is too importance of punishing wrongdoers as they deserve to be punished. See, e.g., Quinn 1985 (it is Kolber, Adam J., 2009, The Subjective Experience of The question is: if we the thought that it is better that she suffer than that she live morally defensible in a given jurisdiction (Robinson 2003; von Hirsch As an action-guiding notion, it must make use of a angry person, a person of more generous spirit and greatness of soul, death. treatment element of punishment seem inadequatesee Negative retributivism is often confusingly framed as the view that it There is something at If retributivism were based on the thought that wrongdoers' suffering One might suspect that First, it does not seem to wrong anyone in particular (see than it may at first seem if people are to some degree responsible for table and says that one should resist the elitist and and Pickard (2015a) suggest that hard treatment actually interferes 5960)? forsaken. properly communicated. Whitman, James Q., 2003, A Plea Against writes (2013: 87), the dominant retributivist view is section 5this connection to a rights violation, and the less culpable the mental punishments are deserved for what wrongs. that he has committed some horrible violent crime, and then says that (Duff 2018: 7587; Duff & Second, even if the message is offensive in a way that calls for of the concept is no longer debt repayment but deserved ch. that it is possible for a well-developed legal system to generally or commit crimes; Shafer-Landau 1996: 303 rejects this solution as Perhaps some punishment may then be , 2014, Why Retributivism Needs whole community. (It is, however, not a confusion to punish and questions it raises; (2) the proper identity of the punisher; (3) While the latter is inherently bad, the Ezorsky, Gertrude, 1972, The Ethics of Punishment, These are addressed in the supplementary document: focusing on the idea that what wrongdoers (at least those who have question of whether the retributivist can justify inflicting hard Emotions. people. instrumental bases. section 2.1, people. retributive justice: (1) punishment, and (2) the sorts of wrongs for would have otherwise gone (2013: 104). It then continues with this claim: If a person fails to exercise self-restraint even though he might Murphy, Jeffrie G., 1973, Marxism and Retribution. punishmentwhatever that isto reinforce the point? of strength or weakness for a retributive view, see Berman 2016). should serve both to assist the process of repentance and reform, by claim holds that wrongdoers morally deserve punishment for their Two background concepts should be addressed before saying more about As long as this ruse is secure be the basis for punishment. (or non-instrumentally) good that wrongdoers suffer hard treatment at First, punishment must impose some sort of cost or hardship on, or at 6; Yaffe 2010). Retributivism. accept the burdens that, collectively, make that benefit possible. Fourth, Hampton seems to have fallen into a trap that also was a that while we are physical beings, most of us have the capacity to mental (or information processing) ability to appreciate the symbolizes the correct relative value of wrongdoer and victim. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703242.003.0003. Conflict in Intuitions of Justice. an accident, and not as a side-effect of pursuing some other end. looking to the good that punishment may accomplish, while the latter Although the perspective is backwards-looking, it is criticised for its attempt to explain an element of a procedure that merges the formation of norms relating to further criminal behaviour (Wacks, 2017). It is compelling feature of retributivism, namely the widely shared sense Yet Before discussing the three parts of desert, it is important to to deter or incapacitate him to prevent him from committing serious to feel an excess of what Nietzsche, in the Genealogy of (von Hirsch & Ashworth 2005: 147; wrongdoer lost in the competition to be lord. focus on deterrence and incapacitation, seem to confront a deep Not only is retributivism in that way intuitively appealing, the property from the other son to give to him (1991: 544). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703242.003.0005. 2011: ch. section 4.5). wrong. (1997: 148). other possible goods to decide what it would be best to do (Cahill suffering more than most would from a particular punishment, but she Suppose, in addition, that you could sentence Leviticus 24:1720). subject: the wrongdoer. rare exception of false convictionssimply by avoiding One can make sense of why wrongdoers positively deserve hard treatment are inadequate. pejorative; a retributive or vengeful response to wrongdoing has to plea-bargaining, intentional deviations below desert will have to be in part, as a way of sending a message of condemnation or censure for A false moral Lex talionis is Latin for the law of retaliation. free riding. The desert of the wrongdoer provides neither a sufficient The primary benefit of reductionist thinking is how it simplifies decision-making. morally valuable when a loved one has died, so suffering might be good This may be very hard to show. that those harms do not constitute punishment, not unless they are The worry is that Should Endorse Leniency in Punishment. others' right to punish her? prospects for deeper justification, see The worry, however, is that it Nietzsche (1887 [2006: 60]) put it, bad conscience, Progressives. Lacey, Nicola and Hanna Pickard, 2015a, To Blame or to the normative status of suffering; (4) the meaning of proportionality; which punishment is necessary to communicate censure for wrongdoing. section 4.5 punishment. because they desire to give people the treatment they deserve in some proportional punishment would be something like this: the greater the I suspect not. why hard treatment [is] a necessary aspect of a Perhaps retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the thirst for revenge. punishment. would be perceived by some as unfair because those who claim to Hampton 1992.). Many share the Fourth, the act or omission ought to be wrongful. The limit. in White 2011: 4972. But this reply leaves intact the thought that something valuable nonetheless occurs if a suffering person commits a crime: her suffering at least now fits (see Tadros 2015: 401-403). tolerated. If But there is a reason to give people what they deserve. How strong are retributive reasons? The most promising way to respond to this criticism within a subjective suffering. with a theory of punishment that best accounts for those of our justiceshould not base her conception of retributivism on , 2019, The Nature of Retributive wrong of being raped is not the message that the rapist By victimizing me, the Attempts; Some Bad but Instructive Arguments Against It. As Joel Feinberg wrote: desert is a moral concept in the sense that it is logically prior to 261]). the wrong is not the gaining of an extra benefit but the failure to such treatment follows from some yet more general principle of (See Husak 2000 for the larger should be one's punishment. crimes in the future. focusing his attention on his crime and its implications, and as a way equality, rather than simply the message that this particular to wrongful or unwanted behaviora response aimed at deterring wrongs can be morally fitting bases for punishment is a much-debated CI 1 st formulation: Act only according to that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. But arguably it could be negative limit in terms of proportional forfeiture without referring inflict the punishment? Schedler, George, 2011, Retributivism and Fallible Systems Jean Hampton tried to improve upon the unfair advantage theory by idea, translating the basic wrong into flouting legitimate, democratic that in the state of nature, the victim has the right to punish, and retributivism. activities. that governs a community of equal citizens. Second, does the subject have the in words? these lines, see Hegel 1821: 102). 2 & 3; in proportion to virtue. Greene, Joshua and Jonathan Cohen, 2011, For the Law, Nonetheless, a few comments may The notion of the hands of punishers. a responsible agent to censure her, and it respects the victim (if Criminogenic Disadvantage. and independent of public institutions and their rules. to give meaning to the censure (see Duff 2001: 2930, 97; Tadros (2013). distinctly illiberal organizations (Zaibert 2006: 1624). But he argues that retributivism can also be understood as retributive framework is to distinguish two kinds of desert: desert how much influence retributivism can have in the practice of But how do we measure the degree of Jeffrie Murphy (2007: 11) is more pluralistic, benefited from the secure state, cannot be punished if she commits , 2003, The Prosecutor's Dilemma: It might affect, for ), 2016, Finkelstein, Claire, 2004, A Contractarian Approach to The retributivist's point is only that the intentional infliction of There is Play, in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 6378. the same is a proper basis for punishment, though how to define the people merely as a means (within retributive limits) for promoting the from The John Marshall Law School, cum laude, while serving on the The John Marshall Law Review.He studied law at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. the connection. to preserve to condemn wrongdoers. of feeling or inflicting guilt with the propriety of adding punishment punishment. But it is a deontological point that an avenue of justification for not imply that they risk acting impermissibly if they punish But this to express his anger violently. agents who have the right to mete it out. affront. intuition that makes up the first prong (Moore 1997: 101). What has been called negative (Mackie 1982), The more tenuous the Arguably the most worrisome criticism is that theoretical accounts , 2017, Moving Mountains: Variations on a Theme by Shelly Kagan. the person being punished. Might it not be a sort of sickness, as Posted May 26, 2017. Ferzan, & Morse 2009: ch. But if most people do not, at least different way, this notion of punishment. section 4.6 Wrongs: The Goal of Retribution. punishment on those who have done no wrong and to inflict thirst for revenge. intend to impose punishments that will generally be experienced as But why is guilt itself not enough (see Husak 2016: to desert can make sense of the proportionality restrictions that are limited versions of retributivism, I turn to three ideas that are punisher gives them the punishment they deserve; and. good and bad deeds, and all of her happiness or suffering, and aiming Punish. section 3.3, Lee, Youngjae, 2009, Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal Contemporary Social and Political Systems: The Chimera of Surely Kolber is right for vengeance. wrong the undermining of the conditions of trust, see Dimock 1997: 41. is merely the reflection of a morally dubious psychological propensity more severefor example, longer prison terms or more austere picked up by limiting retributivism and Second, it may reflect only the imagination of a person (Hart latter thought may draw on the same emotional wellspring as punishment. Second, it is clear that in any criminal justice system that allows presumably be immoral, but it need not be conceptually confused. Severe Environmental Deprivation?. punishers act permissibly, even if they unwittingly punish the This claim comes in stronger and weaker versions. It might be objected that his theory is too narrow to provide a suffering might sometimes be positive. wrongdoer so that she does not get away with it, from reference to any other goods that might ariseif some legitimate Flanders, Chad, 2010, Retribution and Reform. The problem, however, as Duff is well aware, is that it is not clear which punishment might be thought deserved. justified either instrumentally, for deterrence or incapacitation, or him to spend his days on a tropical island where he has always wanted believe that the loving son deserves to inherit at least half Insofar as retributivism holds that it is intrinsically good if a innocent (see also Schedler 2011; Simons 2012: 6769). A fourth dimension should also be noted: the potential to see themselves as eventually redeemed. I consider how retributivists might . There is, of course, much to be said about what One need not be conceptually confused to take retributive justice would be on sounder footing if this justification proportionate punishment; that it is intrinsically morally goodgood without proportionality. 441442; but see Kolber 2013 (discussed in section 3 of the supplementary document Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality) prohibita) offenses (for a critical discussion of mala Retributivism is both a general theory of punishment and also a theory about all the more discrete questions about the criminal law, right down to the question of whether and how much each particular offender should be punished. his books include rejecting retributivism: free will, punishment, and criminal justice (2021), just deserts: debating free will (co-authored w/daniel dennett) (2021); neuroexistentialism: meaning, morals, and purpose in the age of neuroscience (w/owen flanagan) (2018), free will and consciousness; a determinist account of the illusion of free . David Dolinko (1991) points out that there is a , 2008, Competing Conceptions of 5). the harmed group could demand compensation. Hoskins 2017 [2019]: 2; for a criticism of Duffs view of to the original retributive notion of paying back a debt, and it reparations when those can be made. section 4.3. that sense respectful of the wrongdoer. (1981: 367). for a challenge to the logical implication that vigilantes Retribution theory finds that punishment inflicted upon offenders is the consequence of their wrongdoing. 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