Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel's Political Retributivism
Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
12 Pages Posted: 28 Oct 2011 Last revised: 16 Nov 2011
Date Written: October 28, 2011
Abstract
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
Keywords: retributivism, punishment theory, criminal justice, legal moralism
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
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: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1950660
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