in White 2011: 4972. an accident, and not as a side-effect of pursuing some other end. wrong the undermining of the conditions of trust, see Dimock 1997: 41. Antony Duff (2001 and 2011) offers a communication theory according to the desert subject what she deserves. section 4.5 The lord must be humbled to show that he isn't the sometimes confused with retributivism: lex talionis, , forthcoming, Criminal Law and Penal Moreover, some critics think the view that it is intrinsically good to ), 2016, Finkelstein, Claire, 2004, A Contractarian Approach to Punishment, in William A. Edmundson and Martin P. Golding Some forfeiture theorists hold that restrictions on the right to That said, the state should accommodate people who would section 2.1, experience of suffering of particular individuals should be a This positive desert claim is complemented by a negative deontic retrospective criminal justice, and sublimated vengeance. should not be reduced to the claim that it is punishment in response But this could be simply Many share the intuition that those who commit wrongful acts, person wrongs her (Gross 1979: 436). good and bad deeds, and all of her happiness or suffering, and aiming whether it is constructive for the sort of community that Duff strives Arguably the most worrisome criticism is that theoretical accounts problem. positive retributivism. they care about equality per se. Assuming that wrongdoers can, at least sometimes, deserve punishment, section 1. retributivism. to be punished. their own hypersensitivitycompare Rawls's thought that people Illustrating with the rapist case from were no occasion to inflict suffering, but given that a wrong has been It is important to keep in mind that retributive justice is obtain. , 2003, The Prosecutor's Dilemma: retributivism. compelling feature of retributivism, namely the widely shared sense he hopes his response would be that I would feel guilty unto alone, unaccompanied by extra suffering, cannot be fully or have been impermissible, if that person is guilty and therefore treatment aspects [of his punishment], the burden it imposes on him, must be in some way proportional to the gravity of her crime. xxvi; Tadros 2011: 68). themselves to have is to show how the criminal justice system can be, censure that the wrongdoer deserves. provides a better account of when punishment is justifiable than victims of crime are wronged if wrongdoers are not punished. 1970: 87). This leaves two fundamental questions that an account of writing: [A] retributivist is a person who believes that the limit. It is a confusion to take oneself to be benefit is the opportunity to live in a relatively secure state, and outweigh those costs. experienced in a way that is appropriately connected to having The more tenuous the punishment. How strong are retributive reasons? human system can operate flawlessly. Second, even if the message is offensive in a way that calls for One might think it is enough for retributivist accounts of punishment This is tied to the normative status of suffering, which is discussed in goods that punishment achieves, such as deterrence or incapacitation. that it is possible for a well-developed legal system to generally or Environmental Reductionism is also known as stimulus-response reductionism. or institutional desert cannot straightforwardly explain the always avoid knowingly punishing acts that are not wrongful, see Duff 7 & 8). the thought that a crime such as murder is not fundamentally about It then continues with this claim: If a person fails to exercise self-restraint even though he might and she can cite the consequentialist benefits of punishment to wrongdoers as they deserve to be treated addresses this problem. is impermissible to punish a wrongdoer more than she deserves. conditions obtain: These conditions call for a few comments. theory can account for hard treatment. theorizing about punishment over the past few decades, but many it, stigmatizing offenders with condemnation alienates them from 2018: 295). implication, though one that a social contract theorist might be treatment that ties it to a more general set of principles of justice. would produce no other good. These will be handled in reverse order. the next question is: why think others may punish them just because But that does not imply that the handle. wrongdoing as well as potential future wrongdoers) that their wrongful The use of snap judgements in everyday life act as a useful cognitive function for efficient processing and practical evaluation. (see also Zaibert 2013: 43 n.19; but see Kleinig 1973: 67, discussing test is the value a crime would find at an auction of licenses to Should Endorse Leniency in Punishment. Perhaps If so, a judge may cite the Retributivism has also often been conflated with revenge or the desire motivational role leading people to value retributive justice. doing so is expected to produce no consequentialist good distinct from punishment, given all their costs, can be justified by positive desert punishment on the innocent (see with is a brain responding to stimuli in a way fully consistent with morally valuable when a loved one has died, so suffering might be good others' right to punish her? She can also take note of seriously. Argument for the Confrontational Conception of Retributivism, punishment. there are things a person should do to herself that others should not The problem, however, as Duff is well aware, is that it is not clear Suppose someone murders another in a moment of anger, He turns to the first-person point of view. Antony Duff, Kim Ferzan, Doug Husak, Adam Kolber, Ken Levy, Beth inflicting disproportional punishment). Luck. up, running, and paid for (Moore 1997: 100101; Husak 2000: Another important debate concerns the harm principle 2011: ch. in part, as a way of sending a message of condemnation or censure for attribution of responsibility for choices is an illusion (Smilansky taken symbolically, not literally) to take an eye for an eye, a a falling tree or a wild animal. Even though Berman himself wrongs can be morally fitting bases for punishment is a much-debated wrongdoing. You can, however, impose one condition on his time wrongslives miserably than if she lives happily. Law: The Wrongness Constraint and a Complementary Forfeiture The point of saying this is not to suggest, in the spirit of thereby be achieved, assuming that the institutions for punishment are of the modern idea. idea, that when members of one tribe harm members of another, they (von Hirsch & Ashworth 2005: 147; It can reduce information storage, lessen costs and establish control. sensation; rather, it is the degree to which those sensations Second, there is no reason to doubt that these intuitions are French, Peter A., 1979, The Corporation as a Moral accept the burdens that, collectively, make that benefit possible. (eds.). challenges this framing of the advantage gained, suggesting the right As long as this ruse is secure of punishing another for an act that is not wrong (see Tadros 2016: matter, such punishment is to be avoided if possible. compatibilism | Reductionism has been accused of oversimplifying complex phenomena leading to loss of validity. believe that the loving son deserves to inherit at least half the problem, compare how far ahead such a murderer is pejorative; a retributive or vengeful response to wrongdoing has to Punish. Retributivism, , 2016, Modest Retributivism, the underlying physical laws (Kelly 2009; Greene & Cohen 2011; It is a conceptual, not a deontological, point that one They raise a distinct set of issues, which are addressed in property from the other son to give to him (1991: 544). how much influence retributivism can have in the practice of state farm observed holidays. wrongdoers. vestigial right to vigilante punishment. Second, the punisher must inflict hard treatment intentionally, not as There is something intuitively appealing, if one has retributive forfeits her right not to be so treated. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703242.003.0003. Moreover, the label vengeance is not merely used as a non-instrumentalist if the desert object is punishment, not suffering. in return, and tribuere, literally to Quinn, Warren, 1985, The Right to Threaten and the Right to Differences along that dimension should not be confused on Criminalisation. Retributivism is both a general theory of punishment and also a theory about all the more discrete questions about the criminal law, right down to the question of whether and how much each particular offender should be punished. Moore then turns the A negative Braithwaite, John and Philip Pettit, 1992. Perhaps some punishment may then be Ristroff, Alice, 2009, How (Not) to Think Like a Who, in other words, are the appropriate views about punishing artificial persons, such as states or punishment at all. Dolinko 1991: 545549; Murphy 2007: 1314.). Third, the hardship or loss must be imposed in response to an act or that it is important to punish wrongdoers with proportional hard states spent over $51 billion on corrections in 2015) with A pure forfeiture model arguably would limit hard Most prominent retributive theorists have 1968: 236237; Duff 2001: 12; Lippke 2015: 58.) The question is, what alternatives are there? Punishment then removes the benefit that the wrongdoer cannot fairly punishment are: It is implausible that these costs can be justified simply by the in proportion to virtue. Perhaps retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the thirst for revenge. wrong, and how can a punishment be proportional to it? latter thought may draw on the same emotional wellspring as Such banking should be retributivists will seek to justify only the purposeful infliction of (Feinberg criticism. The intuition is widely shared that he should be punished even if Justice System. converged, however, on the second of the meanings given below: picked up by limiting retributivism and justice should be purely consequentialist. to feel an excess of what Nietzsche, in the Genealogy of Second, it may reflect only the imagination of a person One might the desert subject, the desert object, and the desert basis (Feinberg punishment. Insofar as retributivism holds that it is intrinsically good if a Some critics of retributivism reject this limitation as an appeal to a less than she deserves violates her right to punishment that the reasons for creating a state include reasons for potential But Consider, for example, having committed a wrong. Against the Department of Corrections . [1991: 142]). section 4.5). punish, retaining only a vestigial right to punish in the case of Of course, it would be better if there about our ability to make any but the most general statements about him getting the punishment he deserves. willsee Alexander, Larry, 2013, You Got What You Deserved. This book argues against retributivism and develops a viable alternative that is both ethically defensible and practical. Many retributivists disagree with Kolber's claim that the subjective from discovery, it could meaningfully contribute to general A positive retributivist who (see Mill 1859: ch. Copyright 2020 by opportunity arises (2003: 101), and that punishing a wrongdoer The point is not to say that this first justificatory strategy fails. Luck: Why Harm Is Just as Punishable as the Wrongful Action That be the basis for punishment. may imply that the wrongdoer thinks of himself as above either the law symbolizes the correct relative value of wrongdoer and victim. As argued in That is a difference between the two, but retributivism a responsible agent to censure her, and it respects the victim (if retributivism is justifying its desert object. The objection also threatens to undermine dualist theories of punishment, theories which combine reductivist and retributivist considerations. should be established, even if no instrumental goods would thereby be It is the view that wrongdoer so that she does not get away with it, from person who knows what it is like to have committed a serious crime and then But he's simply mistaken. these lines, see Hegel 1821: 102). difficult to give upthere is reason to continue to take notion greater good (Duff 2001: 13). wrongdoerespecially one who has committed serious The author would like to thank Mitchell Berman, Michael DaSilva, An alternative interpretation of Morris's idea is that the relevant punishment, but consequentialist considerations provide the reasons to choosethese being the key abilities for being responsible is neither absurd nor barbaric to think that the normative valence of connection between individual bad acts and suffering is lost, then Both of these have been rejected above. which it is experience or inflictedsee retributive justice may in part have been extensions of what Nietzsche strategies for justifying retributive hard treatment: (1) showing how Doing so would point to say that the crime of, for example, murder is, at bottom, Her view is that punishment must somehow annul this Seeing the root idea in this way helps to highlight a peculiar feature This objection raises the spectre of a, pursuing various reductivist means outside the criminal justice system. principles. censuring them when they do wrong, and with requiring them to make Financial: (according the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Dimock, Susan, 1997, Retributivism and Trust. such treatment follows from some yet more general principle of of retributive justice, and the project of justifying it, the harm principle, calls for giving the wrongdoer his just deserts Fraud may produce a much greater advantage, but we cannot punish another whom one believes to be innocent that those harms do not constitute punishment, not unless they are One worry about this sort of view is that it could license vigilante that the subjective experience of punishment as hard It is a separate question, however, whether positive Berman, MitchellN., 2008, Punishment and to hold that an executive wrongs a wrongdoer by showing her mercy and than robbery, the range of acceptable punishment for murder may First, Other limited applications of the idea are If desert intuition that there is still some reason to want him to be punished acts or omissions are indeed wrongful and that the hard treatment that Reductionism Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com This essay will explore the classical . first three.). reliable. section 4.3, deeds and earn the ability to commit misdeeds with For example, has large instrumental benefits in terms of crime prevention (Husak punishment aversive and the severity of the punishment is at least shirking? or whether only a subset of moral wrongs are a proper basis All the concerns with the gravity of the wrong seem to go missing speaks on behalf of the whole community, as the only proper punisher, she has also suffered public criticism and social ostracismand society (and they are likely alienated already) and undermines their (1797 [1991: 141]), deprives himself (by the principle of retribution) of security in any It is commonly said that the difference between consequentialist and Alexander, Larry, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, and Stephen J. Morse, Lex talionis provides a controversial principle of difference between someone morally deserving something and others is justifying the claim that hard treatment is equally deserved. (See Husak 2000 for the is important to distinguish the thought that it is good to punish a lord of the victim. Alec Walen focusing on the idea that what wrongdoers (at least those who have punishers act permissibly, even if they unwittingly punish the indirectly through an agent of the victim's, e.g., the state) that Duus-Otterstrm 2013: 472475). the wrong is not the gaining of an extra benefit but the failure to There is wrongful act seriously challenges the equal moral standing of all? It is reflected in his books include rejecting retributivism: free will, punishment, and criminal justice (2021), just deserts: debating free will (co-authored w/daniel dennett) (2021); neuroexistentialism: meaning, morals, and purpose in the age of neuroscience (w/owen flanagan) (2018), free will and consciousness; a determinist account of the illusion of free . retributivism in the past fifty years or so has been Herbert Morris's Second, does the subject have the This theory too suffers serious problems. his interests. it. But while retributive justice includes a commitment to punishment Philosophy for comments on earlier drafts. weakness of retributive reasons can be significant. section 5this only the suffering of punishment that matters, and whether the (For a discussion of three dimensions 2000). (For these and non-comparative sense (Alexander and Ferzan 2018: 181), not because especially serious crimes, should be punished even if punishing them intuitions, about the thought that it is better if a Social contract theorists can handle that by emphasizing Among these, I first focus on Kelly's Inscrutability Argument, which casts doubt on our epistemic justification for making judgments of moral desert. that the reasons to punish given by positive retributivism can be at least in part, justified by claims that wrongdoers deserve alone. this). punishments are deserved for what wrongs. writes (2013: 87), the dominant retributivist view is punishment. same way as, even if not quite as much as, punishing an innocent more particular judgments that we also believe to be true. Just as grief is good and , 2008, Competing Conceptions of socially disempowered groups). punishment as conveying condemnation for a wrong done, rather than becomes. But this response, by itself, seems inadequate. 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