Justifying the use of criminal punishment is a difficult task in plural societies where people disagree about what is right and wrong. Nevertheless, they need to decide together. I argue that punishment is only justified when people have moral reasons not to commit crimes, and when those deciding about public responses to crime make decisions that are nonarbitrary. When legislation is legitimate (based on the principles of participation, equality, and deliberation), these conditions are satisfied. However, against what a naïve view of adjudication assumes, adjudicative decisions are made in a context of discretion and disagreement. As a consequence, these decisions need to be legitimate as well, and institutions designed accordingly...
Con la aplicación del Nuevo Código Procesal Penal se han introducido cambios profundos en el sistema...
After a century of reform and experimentation, sentencing remains a highly contested area of the cri...
Con el presente trabajo se reflexionará sobre las posibles conexiones entre la democracia deliberati...
Justifying the use of criminal punishment is a difficult task in plural societies where people disa...
<p>In 2004, the Province of Córdoba, Argentina implemented lay participation in criminal deci...
Criminal systems operate by altering the motivational mechanisms that explain individuals’ behavior....
The author refers to the ethics of responsibility and the communicative approach to law and on that...
Consent has had a broad recognition in the liberal tradition as an adequate mechanism to distribute ...
Una cosa es afirmar que un sujeto merece un castigo, otra que ese castigo es necesario para prevenir...
Criminal law theory traditionally has concerned itself almost exclusively with substantive criminal ...
With this paper, I will reflect on the possible connections between the deliberative democracy and t...
Many of our criminal justice woes can be traced to the loss of the community’s decisionmaking abilit...
The notion of “democratizing criminal law” has an initial appeal because, after all, we believe in t...
Con la aplicación del Nuevo Código Procesal Penal se han introducido cambios profundos en el sistema...
This paper considers the justifiability of removing the right to vote from those convicted of crimes...
Con la aplicación del Nuevo Código Procesal Penal se han introducido cambios profundos en el sistema...
After a century of reform and experimentation, sentencing remains a highly contested area of the cri...
Con el presente trabajo se reflexionará sobre las posibles conexiones entre la democracia deliberati...
Justifying the use of criminal punishment is a difficult task in plural societies where people disa...
<p>In 2004, the Province of Córdoba, Argentina implemented lay participation in criminal deci...
Criminal systems operate by altering the motivational mechanisms that explain individuals’ behavior....
The author refers to the ethics of responsibility and the communicative approach to law and on that...
Consent has had a broad recognition in the liberal tradition as an adequate mechanism to distribute ...
Una cosa es afirmar que un sujeto merece un castigo, otra que ese castigo es necesario para prevenir...
Criminal law theory traditionally has concerned itself almost exclusively with substantive criminal ...
With this paper, I will reflect on the possible connections between the deliberative democracy and t...
Many of our criminal justice woes can be traced to the loss of the community’s decisionmaking abilit...
The notion of “democratizing criminal law” has an initial appeal because, after all, we believe in t...
Con la aplicación del Nuevo Código Procesal Penal se han introducido cambios profundos en el sistema...
This paper considers the justifiability of removing the right to vote from those convicted of crimes...
Con la aplicación del Nuevo Código Procesal Penal se han introducido cambios profundos en el sistema...
After a century of reform and experimentation, sentencing remains a highly contested area of the cri...
Con el presente trabajo se reflexionará sobre las posibles conexiones entre la democracia deliberati...