Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel's Political Retributivism

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