Add to ORKGThe lack of free will in human experience causes clear problems for criminal punishment. Free will is a central assumption of retribution; without the free choice to tear the moral fabric of society, one’s actions cannot warrant that she receives punishment. For its invalidity and cost, retribution should not be used as a penological goal in the creation of laws or sentencing. Utilitarian goals, aimed at the social good, should be used in retribution’s place
Punishing wrongdoers is beneficial for group functioning, but can harm individual well-being. Buildi...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a justification of punishment which can be endorsed by free ...
The repressive reaction involves, as any human action, a certain finality. As the punishment's essen...
The lack of free will in human experience causes clear problems for criminal punishment. Free will i...
Most observers agree that free will is central to our practices of blaming and punishment. Yet the c...
While retributivism provides one of the main sources of justification for punishment within the crim...
The concept of free will is a problematic basis for assessing legal accountability. First of all, fr...
The paper addresses two issues that have been recently debated in the literature on free will, moral...
Punishing criminals involves more than visiting unwelcome experiences–the rack, the gallows, confine...
Précis of Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2022)
"Free will skepticism refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human...
Item does not contain fulltextIf free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, the...
If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs shoul...
When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney\u27s Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences...
Retribution enjoys an unwarranted appeal from the public and its politicians. This is because it is ...
Punishing wrongdoers is beneficial for group functioning, but can harm individual well-being. Buildi...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a justification of punishment which can be endorsed by free ...
The repressive reaction involves, as any human action, a certain finality. As the punishment's essen...
The lack of free will in human experience causes clear problems for criminal punishment. Free will i...
Most observers agree that free will is central to our practices of blaming and punishment. Yet the c...
While retributivism provides one of the main sources of justification for punishment within the crim...
The concept of free will is a problematic basis for assessing legal accountability. First of all, fr...
The paper addresses two issues that have been recently debated in the literature on free will, moral...
Punishing criminals involves more than visiting unwelcome experiences–the rack, the gallows, confine...
Précis of Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2022)
"Free will skepticism refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human...
Item does not contain fulltextIf free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, the...
If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs shoul...
When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney\u27s Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences...
Retribution enjoys an unwarranted appeal from the public and its politicians. This is because it is ...
Punishing wrongdoers is beneficial for group functioning, but can harm individual well-being. Buildi...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a justification of punishment which can be endorsed by free ...
The repressive reaction involves, as any human action, a certain finality. As the punishment's essen...