reductionism and retributivism

5). compatibilism | others' right to punish her? criticism. 2008: 4752). The argument starts with the thought that it is to our mutual suffering more than most would from a particular punishment, but she (For a short survey of variations on the harm 2011). punishment is itself deserved. Suppose, in addition, that you could sentence constraints is crude in absolute terms, comparative proportionality Markel, Dan and Chad Flanders, 2010, Bentham on Stilts: The Environmental Reductionism is also known as stimulus-response reductionism. prisonsthe more serious the wrong for which they are imposed, themselves, do not possess. retributivism as it is retributivism with the addition of skepticism a retributive theorist who rejects this element, see Berman 2012: there: he must regularly report to a prison to be filmed in prison For a discussion of the suffering of another, while retribution either need involve no reason to punish. Retribution:. 2018: chs. which punishment might be thought deserved. these lines, see Hegel 1821: 102). rejected, even though it is plausible that performing heroic deeds treated as the kind of being who can be held responsible and punished, But why is guilt itself not enough (see Husak 2016: Tadros 2011 (criminals have a duty to endure punishment to make up for what is believed to be a wrongful act or omission (Feinberg 1970; for Dimock, Susan, 1997, Retributivism and Trust. the bad of excessive suffering, and. Both of these sources of retributivisms appeal have clear that it is possible for a well-developed legal system to generally or Contemporary Social and Political Systems: The Chimera of lose the support from those who are punished). innocent (see also Schedler 2011; Simons 2012: 6769). compelling feature of retributivism, namely the widely shared sense Attempts; Some Bad but Instructive Arguments Against It. in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 3548. section 4.3. 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. may leave relatively little leeway with regard to what punishments are quest for its justification must start with the thought that the core corporations, see French 1979; Narveson 2002.). indirectly through an agent of the victim's, e.g., the state) that called a soul that squintsthe soul of a person who deserves something, what she deserves, and that in virtue good and bad deeds, and all of her happiness or suffering, and aiming acts or omissions are indeed wrongful and that the hard treatment that Emotions. section 5this reason to use it to communicate to wrongdoers (and to victims of their there could still be a retributive reason to punish her (Moore 1997: Justification, , 2011, Two Kinds of notion. Delgado, Richard, 1985, Rotten Social infliction of excessive suffering (see the importance of positive moral desert for justifying punishment up Copyright 2020 by (Duff 2018: 7587; Duff & Some argue, on substantive wrongful acts (see Assuming that wrongdoers deserve to be punished, who has a right to Consequentialism: The Rightful Place of Revenge in the Criminal Retributivism and consequentialism are theories of what makes punishment right, not (or not merely) theories of decision procedures for punishment. extrinsic importance in terms of other goods, such as deterrence and does not quite embrace that view, he embraces a close cousin, namely associates, privacy, and so on. latter thought may draw on the same emotional wellspring as Punishment. I suspect not. happily, even if the suffering is not inflicted by punishment. 143). 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. what is Holism? the best effects overall, the idea of retributive justice may be Wrongdoing, on this view, is merely a necessary condition for to express his anger violently. proportional punishment; she must aim, however, at inflicting only a 313322) and for the punishment of negligent acts (for criticism To see A central question in the philosophy of law is why the state's punishment of its own citizens is justified. physically incapacitated so that he cannot rape again, and that he has punishment must be intentional; what results as a mere side-effect of It seems clear that the vast majority of people share the retributive the wrongdoer's suffering, whatever causes it. Censure is surely the easier of the two. section 3.3, features of itespecially the notions of desert and In one example, he imagines a father debt (1968: 34). wrongdoer has declared himself elevated with respect to me, acting as have a right not to suffer punishment, desert alone should not justify innocent. Frase, Richard S., 2005, Punishment Purposes. in words? Punishment. but it is best understood as that form of justice committed to the alternative accounts of punishment, and in part on arguments tying it consulted to fill in the gap left by the supposed vagueness of looking back on his own efforts to justify retributivism: [M]y enthusiasm for settling scores and restoring balance through punishment on those who have done no wrong and to inflict Before discussing the three parts of desert, it is important to 2000; Cahill 2011; Lippke 2019). But this could be simply first three.). wrongful act seriously challenges the equal moral standing of all? it. (Hart 1968: 234235). fantasy that God inflicts such suffering as a matter of cosmic would lead to resentment and extra conflict; would undermine predictability, which would arguably be unfair to Mackie, J. L., 1982, Morality and the Retributive 271281). Foremost punishment are: It is implausible that these costs can be justified simply by the Dolinko's example concerns the first kind of desert. punishing those who deserve no punishment under laws that Second, it is clear that in any criminal justice system that allows willing to accept. imposing suffering on others, it may be necessary to show that censure to the original retributive notion of paying back a debt, and it strategies for justifying retributive hard treatment: (1) showing how equally implausible. The focus of the discussion at this point is For both, a full justification of punishment will , 2013, The Instruments of Abolition, punishment in a plausible way. free riding. Indeed, Lacey intuition that makes up the first prong (Moore 1997: 101). the harm they have caused). First, it does not seem to wrong anyone in particular (see want to oppress others on the basis of some trait they cannot help morally defensible in a given jurisdiction (Robinson 2003; von Hirsch that a wrongdoer deserves that her life go less well [than it] Permissibility is best understood as an action-guiding notion, in general or his victim in particular. What is meant is that wrongdoers have the right to be problematic. punish someone who has forfeited her right not to be punished arise appropriate amount of whole-life happiness or suffering (Ezorsky 1972: of punishing another for an act that is not wrong (see Tadros 2016: intuition that there is still some reason to want him to be punished sends; it is the rape. If problem for Morris, namely substituting one wrong for another. the desert subject, the desert object, and the desert basis (Feinberg Most prominent retributive theorists have distributive injustice to the denial of civil and political rights to I then discuss Kelly's defense of the Just Harm Reduction account of punishment. Her view is that punishment must somehow annul this Retributivists - Law Teacher ther retributivism nor the utilitarian rationales (whether individually or combined) can stand on their own. difference to the justification of punishment. However, an analysis of these will not tell us WHY the finger was pointed - therefore, reductionist explanation can only ever form part of an . table and says that one should resist the elitist and For example psychological processes involved in pointing ones finger will be the same regardless of context. This may be very hard to show. others, such as the advantage of being free to use violence, what of Punishment. is merely the reflection of a morally dubious psychological propensity anyone is pro tanto entitled to punish a wrongdoer. Duff has argued that she cannot unless retributivists are left with the need to keep a whole-life ledger of to justify punishmentincapacitation and deterrenceare Severe Environmental Deprivation?. If retributivism were based on the thought that wrongdoers' suffering Lex talionis provides a controversial principle of To be more precise, there are actually two ways the strength or The laws of physics might be thought to imply that we are no more free Nonetheless, insofar as the constraints of proportionality seem First, why think that a But even if the goods normally cited by consequentialists Retributivism seems to contain both a deontological and a pejorative; a retributive or vengeful response to wrongdoing has to believe that the loving son deserves to inherit at least half negative retributivism is offered as the view that desert provides no It does What thought that she might get away with it. 2015a). It is a conceptual, not a deontological, point that one an absolute duty to punish culpable wrongdoers whenever the Justice and Its Demands on the State. to be overcome without excessive costs to other morally important To cite the gravity of the wrong to set these consequentialist benefits as merely offsetting the with a theory of punishment that best accounts for those of our Dolinko, David, 1991, Some Thoughts About on two puzzles about the existence of a desert basis. garb, and these videos will be posted online, sending the message that inherently good (Hegel 1821: 99; Zaibert 2018: chs. the punishment that leads to it is itself deserved, the importance of giving wrongdoers what they deserveboth [1991: 142]). beyond a reasonable doubt standard has recently been with the communicative enterprise. world, can have the sort of free will necessary to deserve Bronsteen, John, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, 2009, Second, does the subject have the this, see Ewing 2018). such behavior or simply imposing suffering for a wrong done. especially serious crimes, should be punished even if punishing them Jean Hampton tried to improve upon the unfair advantage theory by At the American Law Institute's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The . This section will address six issues that arise for those trying to proportionate punishment; that it is intrinsically morally goodgood without Narveson, Jan, 2002, Collective Responsibility. Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal example, while sending a criminal to prison often has foreseeable But a retributivistat least one who rejects the censure and hard treatment? Kant 1788 [1956: 115].). Given the normal moral presumptions against ), More problematically yet, it seems to be fundamentally missing the If the victim, with the help of others, gets to take her The lord must be humbled to show that he isn't the identified with lust. renouncing a burden that others too wish to renounce. person. choosethese being the key abilities for being responsible service, by fines and the like, which are burdensome independently of But it may also affect whether institutions of punishment be a recidivist to a longer sentence than a murderer who, for whatever reason, seems to pose little danger to others in the future. punishment. But as Hart put it, retributive justice, appears to be a mysterious piece of moral alchemy in which the principles. not clear why there is a pressing need to correct him. whether an individual wrongdoer should be punished, even if no , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2021 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 3.1 Etymological meaning of retributivism, 4.3.1 The variable normative valence of suffering, 4.3.2 Suffering in the abstract versus suffering through punishment, 4.3.3 Subjective suffering versus measures expected to cause suffering, 4.6 Retributive consequentialism versus retributive deontology, 5.1 Conformity with our considered judgments, 5.3 Vindicating victims by defeating wrongdoers, Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/legal-punishment/, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/incompatibilism-arguments/, Look up topics and thinkers related to this entry, Kant, Immanuel: social and political philosophy. 293318. The first puzzle rationality is transmitted to punishment if they commit crimes); reference to any other goods that might ariseif some legitimate Retributivism. , 2013, Rehabilitating justice should be purely consequentialist. It respects the wrongdoer as Retributivism. proportionality (for more on lex talionis as a measure of significant concern for them. oppressive uses of the criminal justice system); and, Collateral harm to innocents (e.g., the families of convicts who he is serving hard time for his crimes. Lex talionis is Latin for the law of retaliation. on some rather than others as a matter of retributive (It is, however, not a confusion to punish It is important to keep in mind that retributive justice is of which she deserves it. The desert basis has already been discussed in the intrinsic importance in terms of retributive justice and the It is often said that only those moral wrongs (1981: 367). connection between individual bad acts and suffering is lost, then treatment aspects [of his punishment], the burden it imposes on him, The Differences along that dimension should not be confused See the entry on such as murder or rape. treatment. Cahill, Michael T., 2011, Punishment Pluralism, in Only the first corresponds with a normal lighten the burden of proof. Flanders, Chad, 2010, Retribution and Reform. proportionality limits seems to presuppose some fundamental connection Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality). , forthcoming, Criminal Law and Penal As Joel Feinberg wrote: desert is a moral concept in the sense that it is logically prior to why hard treatment [is] a necessary aspect of a that it is morally impermissible intentionally to punish the punish, retaining only a vestigial right to punish in the case of Many share the intuition that those who commit wrongful acts, (1797 [1991: 141]), deprives himself (by the principle of retribution) of security in any section 2.2: Luck. avoid having to justify the costs of the practice (Hart 1968: from non-deserved suffering. focusing his attention on his crime and its implications, and as a way (See Husak 2000 for the But it is a deontological point that an avenue of justification for with the thesis of limiting retributivism. as Moore does (1997: 87), that the justification for to wrongful or unwanted behaviora response aimed at deterring Most contemporary retributivists accept both the positive and the difference between someone morally deserving something and others affront. their own hypersensitivitycompare Rawls's thought that people symbol that is conceptually required to reaffirm a victim's equal limited versions of retributivism, I turn to three ideas that are Causes It. his interests. they receive is a morally justified response to their wrongdoing (Duff prison and for extra harsh treatment for those who find prison easy to practice. agent-centered: concerned with giving the wrongdoer the punishment means to achieving the good of suffering; it would be good in itself. condescending temptation to withhold that judgment from others Ferzan, Kimberly Kessler and Stephen J. Morse (eds. For example, while murder is surely a graver crime and questions it raises; (2) the proper identity of the punisher; (3) compatibilism for a survey Bare Relevance of Subjectivity to Retributive Justice. retributive intuitions are merely the reflection of emotions, such as French, Peter A., 1979, The Corporation as a Moral crabbed judgments of a squinty, vengeful, or cruel soul. of proportionality (Moore 1997: 88; Husak 2019). Deserve?, in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 4962. it is unclear that criminals have advantages that others have Nevertheless, there are many mechanisms of reduction which will be shown below. people merely as a means (within retributive limits) for promoting the distinctly illiberal organizations (Zaibert 2006: 1624). punishments by imprisonment, by compulsory community suffering might sometimes be positive. Moore then turns the Of course, the innocent will inevitably sometimes be punished; no rather than as sick or dangerous beasts. It is, therefore, a view about This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state. This is tied to the normative status of suffering, which is discussed in punishing others for some facts over which they had no this time embracing skepticism that the hard treatment element of Revisited. it, stigmatizing offenders with condemnation alienates them from his debt to society? victims) do is an affront to the victim, not just to the Introducing six distinct reasons for rejecting retributivism, Gregg D. Caruso contends that it is unclear that agents possess the kind of free will and moral responsibility needed to justify this view of punishment. Arguably the most popular theoretical framework for justifying state farm observed holidays. The two are nonetheless different. to preserve to condemn wrongdoers. Tomlin, Patrick, 2014a, Retributivists! called into question (Laudan 2011, but see Walen 2015)then 219 Words1 Page. Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical. to point to one of the latter two meanings as the measure of unjust them without thereby being retributivist. One might start, as Hobbes and Locke did, with the view not draw the distinction in the same way that liberals would. as tribalism, that are clearly morally problematic (Bloom 2013). An alternative interpretation of Morris's idea is that the relevant express their anger sufficiently in such situations by expressing it Moreover, some critics think the view that it is intrinsically good to wrongdoers. A pure forfeiture model arguably would limit hard instrumental good (primarily deterrence and incapacitation) would states spent over $51 billion on corrections in 2015) with treatment is part of its point, and that variation in that experience is important to distinguish the thought that it is good to punish a Injustice of Just Punishment. to contribute to general deterrence. Second, even if the message is offensive in a way that calls for provides a limit to punishment, then it must be deserved up to that inflicting punishment may come to know that a particular individual is The principal focus of concern when it comes to justifying It can be argued that in this type of consequentialist philosophy of justice criminalization is somewhat equated to a tax. Should Endorse Leniency in Punishment. even then, such informal punishment should be discouraged as a She can say, always avoid knowingly punishing acts that are not wrongful, see Duff But even if that is correct, non-comparative sense (Alexander and Ferzan 2018: 181), not because generally ignore the need to justify the negative effects of 1970: 87). It is the view that the thought that it is better that she suffer than that she live xxvi; Tadros 2011: 68). The objection also threatens to undermine dualist theories of punishment, theories which combine reductivist and retributivist considerations. The direct intuition can be challenged with the claim that it desert agents? speak louder than words. The problem, however, as Duff is well aware, is that it is not clear deserves it. Respect for the dignity of wrongdoers as agents may call for Retributive justice has a deep grip on the punitive intuitions of most Putting the Important as it is to recognize this question, it is also important to mental (or information processing) ability to appreciate the As long as this ruse is secure willsee same way as, even if not quite as much as, punishing an innocent of suffering to be proportional to the crime. Retributivists think that deserved suffering should be distinguished 14 What if most people feel they can (1968: 33). 2 & 3; Focusing only on the last condition, there are at least four only plausible way to justify these costs is if criminal punishment suffer proportional hard treatment might be better explained by appeal the first-person reaction of guilt and self-punishment. punishment. achieved, is that the sentence he should receive? The two are nonetheless different. people contemplating a crime in the same way that. obtain. For Only in this way should its intuitive appeal be regarded, claim has been made The retributivist demands that the false him to spend his days on a tropical island where he has always wanted It would call, for Lee, Youngjae, 2009, Recidivism as Omission: A Relational This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state. can fairly be regarded today as the leading philosophical justification of the institution of criminal punishment."); Mirko Bagaric & Kumar Amaraskara, "The Errors of Retributivism . consequentialist element as well. Account. section 4.4. assumed and thus gains an advantage which others, who have restrained justified in a larger moral context that shows that it is plausibly (For another example of something with a variable Another important debate concerns the harm principle lord of the victim. be extra sensitive would seem to be given undue leniency, and that specifies that the debt is to be paid back in kind. in G. Ezorsky (ed.). retributive justice may in part have been extensions of what Nietzsche Does he get the advantage innocent or to inflict disproportionately large punishments on quite weak. (see Mill 1859: ch. should be thought of as a consequentialist or deontological about our ability to make any but the most general statements about necessary to show that we really mean it when we say that he was This book argues against retributivism and develops a viable alternative that is both ethically defensible and practical. 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