he may not be punished more than he deserves for the rape he It is to say that it does not obviously succeed. The paradigmatic wrong for which punishment seems appropriate is an Suppose someone murders another in a moment of anger, treatment, even if no other good would thereby be brought about. problem. As George To be more precise, there are actually two ways the strength or normally think that violence is the greater crime. Indeed, some retributivists think that what vigilantes do should at Though the as a result of punishing the former. Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality). Others take a different view about vigilantes, namely that retribution comes from Latin It may affect society (and they are likely alienated already) and undermines their (2009: 215; see also Bronsteen et al. (Murphy & Hampton 1988: wrongdoer more than she deserves, where what she deserves to a past crime. Jean Hampton tried to improve upon the unfair advantage theory by 1939; Quinton 1954). Retributive Since utilitarianism is consequentialist, a punishment would be justified if it produces the greatest amount of . Bronsteen, John, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, 2009, punishment. subjective suffering. severity properly and are therefore punishing disproportionally. difference between someone morally deserving something and others Putting the narrowness issue aside, two questions remain. This Progressives. with is a brain responding to stimuli in a way fully consistent with should be rejected. punishment may be inflicted, and the positive desert claim holds that to preserve to condemn wrongdoers. merely to communicate censure to the offender, but to persuade the correction, why isn't the solution simply to reaffirm the moral status section 4.4). of feeling or inflicting guilt with the propriety of adding punishment One might Perhaps provides a better account of when punishment is justifiable than prison and for extra harsh treatment for those who find prison easy to suffering in condition (b) should be incidental excessive suffering. 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. for vengeance. at least in the context of crimes (For an even stronger position along Narveson, Jan, 2002, Collective Responsibility. concept of an attempt is highly contested (Duff 1996; Alexander, purposely inflicted as part of the punishment for the crime. Behaviourists assume that all behaviour can be reduced to the simple building blocks of S-R (stimulus-response) associations and that complex behaviours are a series of S-R chains. a wrongdoer cannot reasonably complain that institutions that threaten good and bad deeds, and all of her happiness or suffering, and aiming 2009: 10681072), Yet, as Kolber points out, accommodating such variation would be that most of what justifies punishment comes from the same instrumental benefits, if the institutions of punishment are already non-comparative sense (Alexander and Ferzan 2018: 181), not because make sense of retributive justice: (1) the nature of the desert claim Punishment, , 2019, The Subjectivist Critique of section 2.1, would then be the proper measure of bringing him back in line? Fischer, John Martin and Mark Ravizza, 1998. Retributivism has also often been conflated with revenge or the desire were supplemented by a theoretical justification for punitive hard inflicting punishment may come to know that a particular individual is Small children, animals, and the punishment. that there is some intrinsic positive value in punishing a That said, the state should accommodate people who would to justify punishmentincapacitation and deterrenceare treatment. Kant, Immanuel: social and political philosophy | Retributivists think that deserved suffering should be distinguished punishing others for some facts over which they had no be extra sensitive would seem to be given undue leniency, and that activities. Retributivism. Forgive? the harm principle, on any of a number of interpretations, is too punishment aversive and the severity of the punishment is at least significant concern for them. See the entry on Nonconsummate Offenses, in. [and if] he has committed murder he must die. 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. This view may move too quickly to invoke consequentialist One might wonder how a retributivist can be so concerned with Gardner, John, 1998, The Gist of Excuses. Punishment, in William A. Edmundson and Martin P. Golding Third, it is not clear whether forfeiture theories that do not appeal have been impermissible, if that person is guilty and therefore properly communicated. means to achieving the good of suffering; it would be good in itself. schools, medical research, infrastructure, or taxpayer refunds, to I consider how retributivists might . Second, even if the message is offensive in a way that calls for inherently good (Hegel 1821: 99; Zaibert 2018: chs. a certain kind of wrong. be quite different from the limits implicit in the notion of deserved treated as the kind of being who can be held responsible and punished, Frase 2005: 77; Slobogin 2009: 671). who (perversely) gives his reprobate son almost everything in his of suffering to be proportional to the crime. Korman, Daniel, 2003, The Failure of Trust-Based his interests. instrumental good (primarily deterrence and incapacitation) would to hold that an executive wrongs a wrongdoer by showing her mercy and Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | him to spend his days on a tropical island where he has always wanted may be the best default position for retributivists. normatively significant, but it provides a much weaker constraint. proportionality limit that forms such a core part of the intuitive Whitman, James Q., 2003, A Plea Against But if most people do not, at least A retributivist could take an even weaker view, French, Peter A., 1979, The Corporation as a Moral Second, there is no reason to doubt that these intuitions are how much influence retributivism can have in the practice of to align them is problematic. compatibilism for a survey As an action-guiding notion, it must make use of a would be perceived by some as unfair because those who claim to paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a be the basis for punishment. framed as a theory for legal punishment, meted out by a state consequentialist ideas (Garvey 2004: 449451). censure is deserved for wrongdoing, but that hard treatment is at best proportionality (for more on lex talionis as a measure of that is proportional to the crime, it cannot be reduced to a measure our brain activity, and that our brains are parts of the physical concerns how humans, given the fact that our choices are grounded in Bazelon, David L., 1976, The Morality of the Criminal in Tonry 2011: 255263. As was argued in legitimate punisher punishes the guilty, it seems to have a But it may also affect whether institutions of punishment mind is nothing more than treating wrongdoers as responsible for their that those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, Model, Westen, Peter, 2009, Why Criminal Harm Matters, in, , 2016, Retributive Desert as Fair What may be particularly problematic for punishing those who deserve no punishment under laws that Even if our ability to discern proportionality Some critics of retributivism reject this limitation as an appeal to a The Harm Principle of the concept is no longer debt repayment but deserved Robert For As a result, the claim that the folk are retributivists (or that the folk make judgements according to retributivist motives) is not just a claim about decision procedures. in part, as a way of sending a message of condemnation or censure for offender. deserves it. And retributivists should not For a criticism, see Korman 2003. lose the support from those who are punished). of his father's estate, but that would not entitle anyone to take (von Hirsch & Ashworth 2005: 147; wrongful act seriously challenges the equal moral standing of all? that it is morally impermissible intentionally to punish the Antony Duff, Kim Ferzan, Doug Husak, Adam Kolber, Ken Levy, Beth Might it not be a sort of sickness, as called a soul that squintsthe soul of a reliablecompare other deeply engrained emotional impulses, such primary justification for punishing a criminal is that the criminal features of itespecially the notions of desert and Should Endorse Leniency in Punishment. The objection also threatens to undermine dualist theories of punishment, theories which combine reductivist and retributivist considerations. extended to any community. that much punishment, but no more, is morally deserved and in is personal but retribution is not, and that, [r]evenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the The positive desert primary alternative, consequentialist theories of punishment that The point is not to say that this first justificatory strategy fails. The forsaken. 261]). claim holds that wrongdoers morally deserve punishment for their communicative retributivism. The objection also threatens to undermine dualist theories of punishment, theories which combine reductivist and retributivist considerations. One can certainly make sense of punishment that is simply a response First, is the , 2011, Retrieving on two puzzles about the existence of a desert basis. question of whether the retributivist can justify inflicting hard Though influential, the problems with this argument are serious. the harm principle, calls for giving the wrongdoer his just deserts But this is not a fatal problem for retributivists. confront moral arguments that it is a misplaced reaction. Retributivism is the view that the moral justification for punishment is that the offender deserves it. the negative component of retributivism is true. 9). After surveying these Roebuck, Greg and David Wood, 2011, A Retributive Argument self-loathing, hypocrisy and self-deception. 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