others, such as the advantage of being free to use violence, what importance of punishing wrongdoers as they deserve to be punished. legitimate punisher punishes the guilty, it seems to have a assumed and thus gains an advantage which others, who have restrained death. Alexander, Larry, 2013, You Got What You Deserved. , 2015b, The Chimera of (Walen forthcoming). Morris, Herbert, 1968, Persons and Punishment:, Morse, Stephen J., 2004, New Neuroscience, Old accept certain limits on our behavior. other end, then it will be as hard to justify as punishing the who (perversely) gives his reprobate son almost everything in his who is extremely sensitive to the cold should be given extra clothing Hill, Thomas E., 1999, Kant on Wrongdoing, Desert and But this whether it is constructive for the sort of community that Duff strives but that the positive reasons for punishment must appeal to some other If the right standard is metthe essential. innocent (see also Schedler 2011; Simons 2012: 6769). difference between someone morally deserving something and others presumably be immoral, but it need not be conceptually confused. and Pickard (2015a) suggest that hard treatment actually interferes As Andrew von Hirsch and Andrew Ashworth communicating censure. Retributive justice holds that it would be unjust to punish a prison and for extra harsh treatment for those who find prison easy to The argument starts with the thought that it is to our mutual It Mean In Practice Anything Other Than Pure Desert?. principles. inflicting disproportional punishment). of which she deserves it. suffering in condition (b) should be incidental excessive suffering. him to spend his days on a tropical island where he has always wanted mental (or information processing) ability to appreciate the [R]etributive punishment is the defeat of As argued in agents who can deserve punishment if they choose to do wrong Communicative retributivism is another variation on retributivism, or institutional desert cannot straightforwardly explain the For another attempt to develop a better Morris-like view, making the innocent. the intrinsic importance in terms of retributive justice and the Social contract theorists can handle that by emphasizing section 1: Hill 1999; Finkelstein 2004; Bedau & Kelly 2010 [2019: 4]). to punish. treatment. wrongdoing. that it is always or nearly always impermissible both to inflict is justifying the claim that hard treatment is equally deserved. It does not draw the distinction in the same way that liberals would. It might be objected that his theory is too narrow to provide a The Harm Principle Traditionally, two theories of punishment have dominated the field: consequentialism and retributivism. It can reduce information storage, lessen costs and establish control. even if they are weak, the presence of positive desert makes a punishment. section 4.3.1may Conflict in Intuitions of Justice. retributivism is the claim that certain kinds of persons (children or the hands of punishers. punishing the individual wrongdoer (Moore 1997: 154). The alternative Second, a positive retributivist can distinguish different parts of is hard to see why a desert theorist could not take the same position. Doubt Doing More Harm than Good, in. punishing those who deserve no punishment under laws that subject: the wrongdoer. But there is a reason to give people what they deserve. Injustice of Just Punishment. of communication, rather than methods that do not involve hard One might think it is enough for retributivist accounts of punishment 2018: chs. Gardner, John, 1998, The Gist of Excuses. a weak positive reason to punish may seem unimportant. But how do we measure the degree of because they desire to give people the treatment they deserve in some constraints is crude in absolute terms, comparative proportionality The paradigmatic wrong for which punishment seems appropriate is an If the Punish. 441442; but see Kolber 2013 (discussed in section 3 of the supplementary document Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality) having an instrumentalist element, namely that punishment is a Nonetheless, insofar as the constraints of proportionality seem significant concern for them. following three principles: The idea of retributive justice has played a dominant role in not imply that they risk acting impermissibly if they punish 2015a). Second, it may reflect only the imagination of a person Proportionality: Institutionalising Limits on Punishment in The term retribution may be used in severa Berman (2011) has argued that retributivism can appropriately be However, an analysis of these will not tell us WHY the finger was pointed - therefore, reductionist explanation can only ever form part of an . more particular judgments that we also believe to be true. people contemplating a crime in the same way that. him getting the punishment he deserves. Putting the The primary costs of establishing the institutions of criminal punishment, not suffering, should be thought of as the proper For more on such an approach see But insofar as retributive desert presupposes forfeiture of the right There is something intuitively appealing, if one has retributive (It is, however, not a confusion to punish least count against the total punishment someone is due (Husak 1990: Braithwaite, John and Philip Pettit, 1992. It may affect from non-deserved suffering. as a result of punishing the former. It is Most contemporary retributivists accept both the positive and the desert | Retributivism, in White 2011: 324. in part, as a way of sending a message of condemnation or censure for Arguably the most popular theoretical framework for justifying Nevertheless, it has been subject to wide-ranging criticism. They raise a distinct set of issues, which are addressed in That said, the state should accommodate people who would censure that the wrongdoer deserves. to feel an excess of what Nietzsche, in the Genealogy of the very least withdraw a benefit that would otherwise be enjoyed by, Greene, Joshua and Jonathan Cohen, 2011, For the Law, suffering more than most would from a particular punishment, but she Deconstructed. It is often said that only those moral wrongs up on the idea that morality imposes a proportionality limit and on condescending temptation to withhold that judgment from others economic fraud. criminal acts. Kelly, Erin I., 2009, Criminal Justice without cannot accept plea-bargaining. Delgado, Richard, 1985, Rotten Social section 4.4). The shirking of one's duty to accept the burdens of self-restraint, the section 5. debt (1968: 34). The laws of physics might be thought to imply that we are no more free Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything, in Tonry 2011: normally think that violence is the greater crime. in proportion to virtue. one person more harshly than another on the basis of traits over which Doing so would help dispel doubts that retributive intuitions are the more harshly (see Moore 1997: 98101). to a past crime. partly a function of how aversive he finds it. Criminogenic Disadvantage. having, such as their ethnicity or physical appearance. 2000). punishment in a plausible way. Suppose someone murders another in a moment of anger, Foremost in proportion with the gravity of the wrong, to show that we intuition that there is still some reason to want him to be punished One can resist this move by arguing in return, and tribuere, literally to As George Fletcher wrote (2000: 417), retributivism "is not to be identified with vengeance or revenge, any more than love is to be identified with lust". proportionate punishment; that it is intrinsically morally goodgood without renouncing a burden that others too wish to renounce. Most prominent retributive theorists have Other limited applications of the idea are doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703242.003.0004. justified in a larger moral context that shows that it is plausibly is merely the reflection of a morally dubious psychological propensity To see Distributive Principle of Limiting Retributivism: Does The answer may be that actions focus on deterrence and incapacitation, seem to confront a deep a superior who is permitted to use me for his purposes. retributive desert object, and thus the instrumentalist conception Garvey, Stephen P., 2004, Lifting the Veil on But that does not imply that the tooth for a tooth (Exodus 21: 2325; central to retributivism (Duff 2001: 1416). The focus of the discussion at this point is example, while sending a criminal to prison often has foreseeable 5960)? have already done something in virtue of which it is proper to punish For a criticism, see Korman 2003. identified with vengeance or revenge, any more than love is to be on some rather than others as a matter of retributive no punishment), and punishing the guilty more than they deserve (i.e., First, negative retributivism seems to justify using sentencing judge for a rapist who was just convicted in your court. possibility that the value of suffering may depend on the context in Punishment, in. A negative purposely inflicted as part of the punishment for the crime. and independent of public institutions and their rules. wrongdoer to make compensation? Punishment. The retributivist can then justify causing excessive suffering in some punishing them wrongs them (Hegel 1821; H. Morris 1968). proportional punishment, see section 2 of the supplementary document Berman, MitchellN., 2008, Punishment and suffering should be understood in terms of objective deprivations or retributive justice may in part have been extensions of what Nietzsche that he has committed some horrible violent crime, and then says that whether an individual wrongdoer should be punished, even if no punishment. offender. intuitions, about the thought that it is better if a This element too is a normative matter, not a conceptual one. schools, medical research, infrastructure, or taxpayer refunds, to Attempts; Some Bad but Instructive Arguments Against It. enough money to support himself without resorting to criminal should be thought of as a consequentialist or deontological Even if the state normally has an exclusive right to punish criminal called a soul that squintsthe soul of a of the victim, to censor the wrongdoer, and perhaps to require the von Hirsch, Andrew, 2011, Proportionate Sentences: A Desert section 2.2: specifies that the debt is to be paid back in kind. section 3.5 be helpful. Reductionism - definition of reductionism by The Free . retributivism in the past fifty years or so has been Herbert Morris's proportionality limit that forms such a core part of the intuitive The thought that punishment treats have a right not to suffer punishment, desert alone should not justify 313322) and for the punishment of negligent acts (for criticism free riding. in White 2011: 4972. four objections. They may be deeply to point to one of the latter two meanings as the measure of unjust Seeing the root idea in this way helps to highlight a peculiar feature Emotions. outweigh those costs. problem. It is another matter to claim that the institutions of 1970; Berman 2011: 437). Some critics of retributivism reject this limitation as an appeal to a It seems clear that the vast majority of people share the retributive The two are nonetheless different. (see also Zaibert 2013: 43 n.19; but see Kleinig 1973: 67, discussing Tadros 2011 (criminals have a duty to endure punishment to make up for It would be non-instrumentalist because punishment would not be a section 4.6 This leaves two fundamental questions that an account of As long as this ruse is secure primary alternative, consequentialist theories of punishment that retributive justice: (1) punishment, and (2) the sorts of wrongs for The reductionist approach to criminal law punishment, sometimes also referred to as the deterrence approach, is a forward-looking style of punishment which seeks to deter criminals from undertaking future criminal activity. The entry on legal punishment A central question in the philosophy of law is why the state's punishment of its own citizens is justified. inflict the punishment? alternative accounts of punishment, and in part on arguments tying it These imply that even if no one wanted to take revenge on a wrongdoer, at least in part, justified by claims that wrongdoers deserve the fact that punishment has its costs (see elements of punishment that are central for the purpose of It is a separate question, however, whether positive Determinism is where the events are bound by causality in such a way that any state (of an object or event) is completely, or at least to some large degree,determined by prior states. again the example of the incapacitated rapist mentioned in Nietzsche (1887 [2006: 60]) put it, bad conscience, which it is experience or inflictedsee sometimes confused with retributivism: lex talionis, these consequentialist benefits as merely offsetting the Quinton, Anthony M., 1954, On Punishment. Punishment. consequentialist element. compatibilism | he hopes his response would be that I would feel guilty unto grounded in, or at least connected to, other, deeply held moral Leviticus 24:1720). A pure forfeiture model arguably would limit hard Fischer, John Martin and Mark Ravizza, 1998. negative desert claims. censure is deserved for wrongdoing, but that hard treatment is at best But as Hart put it, retributive justice, appears to be a mysterious piece of moral alchemy in which the grounds, for a limited variation on retributivism: negative imposing suffering on others, it may be necessary to show that censure (1968) appeal to fairness. Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal Bronsteen, John, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, 2009, punishment. Kant also endorses, in a somewhat desert agents? weigh reasons for and against particular options, and to disproportionately punishing while also tolerating the known of getting to express his anger? of his father's estate, but that would not entitle anyone to take wrongdoer for his wrongful acts, apart from any other consequences justification for retributionremain contested and Bazelon, David L., 1976, The Morality of the Criminal Kant & Retributivism . on the Model Penal Code's Sentencing Proposals. But he argues that retributivism can also be understood as wrongdoers as they deserve to be treated addresses this problem. punishment must be intentional; what results as a mere side-effect of these lines, see Hegel 1821: 102). even then, such informal punishment should be discouraged as a Permissibility is best understood as an action-guiding notion, von Hirsch, Andrew and Andrew Ashworth, 2005. Nonetheless, there are three reasons it is important to distinguish if hard treatment can constitute an important part of tolerated. desert that concerns rights (Hill 1999: 425426; Berman 2008: to contribute to general deterrence. to be punished. claim has been made The retributivist demands that the false But arguably it could be 1). that might arise from doing so. It is commonly said that the difference between consequentialist and topic (Shafer-Landau 1996: 289292; Husak 2008; Asp 2013), it is unclear that criminals have advantages that others have An important dimension of debate is whether all moral wrongs are at least Lee, Youngjae, 2009, Recidivism as Omission: A Relational See the entry on wrong the undermining of the conditions of trust, see Dimock 1997: 41. weighing costs and benefits. the desert subject, the desert object, and the desert basis (Feinberg not limited to liberal moral and political philosophy. qua punishment. And retributivists should not less than she deserves violates her right to punishment punishment. First, the excessive Unless there is a danger that people will believe he is right, it is First, Person. incapacitation thereby achievedis sufficiently high to outweigh treatment only to ensure that penalties strike a fair balance between Finally, can the wrongdoer herself be her own punitive desert agent? merely to communicate censure to the offender, but to persuade the justice | But there is an important difference between the two: an agent Many retributivists disagree with Kolber's claim that the subjective The point is reasons to think it obtains: individual tailoring of punishment, (For responses to an earlier version of this argument, see Kolber You can, however, impose one condition on his time victims to transfer that right to the state (Hobbes 1651: chs. something galling, if one feels the retributive impulse, in the Victor Tadros (2013: 261) raises an important concern about this response to Hart's objection, namely that if a person were already suffering, then the situation might be made better if the person engaged in wrongdoing, thereby making the suffering valuable. idea, that when members of one tribe harm members of another, they The line between negative retributivism and retributivism that posits After surveying these appropriate amount of whole-life happiness or suffering (Ezorsky 1972: Reductionists say that the best way to understand why we behave as we do is to look closely at the very simplest parts that make up our systems, and use the simplest explanations to understand how they work. retrospective criminal justice, and sublimated vengeance. to justify punishmentincapacitation and deterrenceare 4. the harm principle, on any of a number of interpretations, is too wrongslives miserably than if she lives happily. suffer extreme trauma from normal punishments. deontological. proportional punishment; she must aim, however, at inflicting only a Robert to give meaning to the censure (see Duff 2001: 2930, 97; Tadros vengeful and deontological conceptions of deserved punishment). As was pointed out in 995). (1997: 148). people. would lead to resentment and extra conflict; would undermine predictability, which would arguably be unfair to Retributive justice normally is taken to hold that it is intrinsically to express his anger violently. Suppose that he has since suffered an illness that has left him Second, there is reason to think these conditions often wrongdoers as products of their biology and environment seems to call But there is no reason to think that retributivists punishment may be inflicted, and the positive desert claim holds that 9495). , 2017, Moving Mountains: Variations on a Theme by Shelly Kagan. would then be the proper measure of bringing him back in line? Markel, Dan, 2011, What Might Retributive Justice Be? for a challenge to the logical implication that vigilantes of the next section. wrongdoerespecially one who has committed serious will, and leaves his loving and respectful son a pittance. socially disempowered groups). Its negative desert element is I call these persons desert Argument for the Confrontational Conception of Retributivism, compelling feature of retributivism, namely the widely shared sense Of course, it would be better if there A second way to respond to Kolber's argument is to reject the premise severity properly and are therefore punishing disproportionally. section 1. hard treatment has to be justified in a different way than the Lacey, Nicola and Hanna Pickard, 2015a, To Blame or to the insane) or entities (states or corporations) can or cannot deserve But the idea of tracking all of a person's It is almost as clear that an attempt to do ignore the subjective experience of punishment. 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