This article is centred on an argument against capital punishment, namely the argument of minimum interference, which goes back to Beccaria. The essential premises of this argument are defended, namely the general legitimacy of the existence of a penal system, the greater violence of capital punishment over imprisonment, and the thesis that imprisonment is at least equally suited towards achieving the goals aimed at by capital punishment. Two objections are then rejected, firstly the view that capital punishment is a greater deterrent than imprisonment, and secondly, the interpretation of punishment as retribution. In the first case, the argument is based on a reductio ad absurdum, and in the second, on the argument that, even if punishment...
Among all the different types of penalties that exist in the various juridical systems around the wo...
The will of democratization in the CI.S. needs the abolition of the death penalty, as required by th...
It is clear enough that utilitarianism contributed to the softening of many penal systems in the wor...
International audienceIn this article, I return to the origins of J. Glover’s chapter on the death p...
The article presents the principal elements of Kant’s argument in favor of capital punishment, toget...
International audienceThis article deals with the paradoxical fate of capital punishment in Californ...
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Cet article tente de comprendre une énigme de la société moderne : comment celle-ci en est-elle venu...
Dans cet article, nous essayons de trouver une définition qui puisse s’appliquer à toutes les peines...
Plus de cinq décennies après la publication de Réflexions sur la Guillotine (1957) de Camus, la pein...
In an article published in French in 1997, the author offered reflections on feminism and criminal l...
In this article I stress the importance of Filangieri’s thought, putting in relief, at the same time...
There are debates around the legitimacy of capital punishment, i.e., whether death could serve as a ...
Capital punishment has generated an incredible amount of public debate. Is the practice constitution...
Resumé The right to life and the capital punishment Death penalty or capital punishment, or extreme ...
Among all the different types of penalties that exist in the various juridical systems around the wo...
The will of democratization in the CI.S. needs the abolition of the death penalty, as required by th...
It is clear enough that utilitarianism contributed to the softening of many penal systems in the wor...
International audienceIn this article, I return to the origins of J. Glover’s chapter on the death p...
The article presents the principal elements of Kant’s argument in favor of capital punishment, toget...
International audienceThis article deals with the paradoxical fate of capital punishment in Californ...
P(論文)This article, by examining various inhumane methods of execution used previously in Europe, in ...
Cet article tente de comprendre une énigme de la société moderne : comment celle-ci en est-elle venu...
Dans cet article, nous essayons de trouver une définition qui puisse s’appliquer à toutes les peines...
Plus de cinq décennies après la publication de Réflexions sur la Guillotine (1957) de Camus, la pein...
In an article published in French in 1997, the author offered reflections on feminism and criminal l...
In this article I stress the importance of Filangieri’s thought, putting in relief, at the same time...
There are debates around the legitimacy of capital punishment, i.e., whether death could serve as a ...
Capital punishment has generated an incredible amount of public debate. Is the practice constitution...
Resumé The right to life and the capital punishment Death penalty or capital punishment, or extreme ...
Among all the different types of penalties that exist in the various juridical systems around the wo...
The will of democratization in the CI.S. needs the abolition of the death penalty, as required by th...
It is clear enough that utilitarianism contributed to the softening of many penal systems in the wor...