This paper considers whether publicizing criminal labels is justified as a form of punishment. It begins by arguing that making criminal labels public is inevitably stigmatizing and that stigmatization is not, as is often implied, a defining aspect of censure, but needs independent justification. It argues that justifying grounds for public criminal labelling cannot be found in either the communicative account of punishment or deterrence theory. Rather, public criminal labelling should be understood as undermining of both the communicative and the deterrent functions of punishment. Recent empirical work is drawn upon to support the claims about public criminal labelling and deterrence
Those convicted of a crime are often punished twice; once via the legal system’s formal sanction, an...
This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to f...
Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also bee...
This paper considers whether publicizing criminal labels is justified as a form of punishment. It be...
‘Fair labelling’ has become common currency in criminal law scholarship over recent decades, but the...
The punishment imposed on criminal offenders by courts often does not exhaust the hardship they expe...
Labelling theory is a perspective that emerged as a distinctive approach to criminology during the 1...
In the past twenty-five years advances in research have increased awareness of the deleterious effec...
Although punishment has been a crucial feature of every legal system, widespread disagreement exists...
This paper is concerned with the way in which criminal justice systems cause harms that go well beyo...
Labelling theory has not only fired the imagination of innumerable writers on deviance over the last...
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Society punishes criminal conduct by incarceration and moral condemnation. Prior to imposing sanctio...
This paper examines the influence of so-called popular punitivism on contemporary society. Concerted...
Expressivist theories of punishment, according to which a penal sanction articulates or expresses a ...
Those convicted of a crime are often punished twice; once via the legal system’s formal sanction, an...
This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to f...
Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also bee...
This paper considers whether publicizing criminal labels is justified as a form of punishment. It be...
‘Fair labelling’ has become common currency in criminal law scholarship over recent decades, but the...
The punishment imposed on criminal offenders by courts often does not exhaust the hardship they expe...
Labelling theory is a perspective that emerged as a distinctive approach to criminology during the 1...
In the past twenty-five years advances in research have increased awareness of the deleterious effec...
Although punishment has been a crucial feature of every legal system, widespread disagreement exists...
This paper is concerned with the way in which criminal justice systems cause harms that go well beyo...
Labelling theory has not only fired the imagination of innumerable writers on deviance over the last...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final ...
Society punishes criminal conduct by incarceration and moral condemnation. Prior to imposing sanctio...
This paper examines the influence of so-called popular punitivism on contemporary society. Concerted...
Expressivist theories of punishment, according to which a penal sanction articulates or expresses a ...
Those convicted of a crime are often punished twice; once via the legal system’s formal sanction, an...
This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to f...
Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also bee...