The Ongoing Revolution in Punishment Theory: Doing Justice as Controlling Crime
24 Pages Posted: 23 Oct 2009 Last revised: 13 Mar 2011
Date Written: March 11, 2011
Abstract
This lecture offers a broad review of current punishment theory debates and the alternative distributive principles for criminal liability and punishment that they suggest. This broader perspective attempts to explain in part the Model Penal Code's recent shift to reliance upon desert and accompanying limitation on the principles of deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.
Keywords: punishment theory, distributive principle for criminal liability and punishment, deterrence, incapacitation of the dangerous, rehabilitation, empirical desert, deontological desert, Model Penal Code
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