Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel's Political Retributivism

Cahill, Michael

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Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel's Political Retributivism

Michael T. Cahill

Brooklyn Law School

October 28, 2011

Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 255

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This commentary responds to the account of political retributivism Dan Markel sets out in “Retributive Justice and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship.”

Markel's paper, and links to other commentaries on it, can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1930443

His reply to this commentary, and the others, can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1950321

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Keywords: retributivism, punishment theory, criminal justice, legal moralism

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Date posted: October 28, 2011 ; Last revised: November 16, 2011

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Cahill, Michael T., Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel's Political Retributivism (October 28, 2011). Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming; Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 255. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1950660

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