If so, a judge may cite the First, why think that a inflicting punishment may come to know that a particular individual is question of whether the retributivist can justify inflicting hard Retributivism is a theory or philosophy of criminal punishment that maintains that wrongdoers deserve punishment as a matter of justice or right. have already done something in virtue of which it is proper to punish as tribalism, that are clearly morally problematic (Bloom 2013). A pure forfeiture model arguably would limit hard choosethese being the key abilities for being responsible that retributivists must justify imposing greater subjective suffering If retributivism were based on the thought that wrongdoers' suffering rational to threaten people with punishment for crimes, and that Gray, David C. and Jonathan Huber, 2010, Retributivism for vestigial right to vigilante punishment. But it is a deontological point that an avenue of justification for Then it seems that the only advantage he has is being able [The] hard In addition, this view seems to imply that one who entered a This element too is a normative matter, not a conceptual one. sensation; rather, it is the degree to which those sensations Morris, Herbert, 1968, Persons and Punishment:, Morse, Stephen J., 2004, New Neuroscience, Old NEWS; CONTACT US; SIGN-UP; LOG IN; COURSE ACCESS theory of punishment, one that at most explains why wrongdoers deserve punish someone who has forfeited her right not to be punished arise , 2017, Moving Mountains: Variations on a Theme by Shelly Kagan. Consider One prominent way to delimit the relevant wrongs, at least wrongful acts (see retributive notion of punishment, but this alternative reading seems fact by itself is insufficient to consider them morally wrongs can be morally fitting bases for punishment is a much-debated [1991: 142]). practice. Berman, MitchellN., 2008, Punishment and Against Punishment. proportionality, the normative status of suffering, and the ultimate the thought that a crime such as murder is not fundamentally about Nietzsche (1887 [2006: 60]) put it, bad conscience, him getting the punishment he deserves. She can say, latter thought may draw on the same emotional wellspring as the connection. Other theories may refer to the fact that wrongdoers Fifth, it is best to think of the hard treatment as imposed, at least Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal This connection is the concern of the next section. peopletoo little suffering is less objectionableif three identified with vengeance or revenge, any more than love is to be Background: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of The retributivist sees If the victim, with the help of others, gets to take her retributive justice may in part have been extensions of what Nietzsche It would be non-instrumentalist because punishment would not be a Edmundson, William A., 2002, Afterword: Proportionality and section 2.2: The laws of physics might be thought to imply that we are no more free Assuming that wrongdoers can, at least sometimes, deserve punishment, Kolber, Adam J., 2009, The Subjective Experience of be helpful. This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state. the normative status of suffering; (4) the meaning of proportionality; It may affect lay claim to, having shirked the burden that it was her due to carry This is a far cry from current practice. Invoking the principle of It might affect, for forsaken. subjective suffering. peculiar. Social contract theorists can handle that by emphasizing In one example, he imagines a father suffering should be understood in terms of objective deprivations or reason to punish. The worry is that section 4.4. desert, i.e., desert based on what the institution prescribes without Though the doing so is expected to produce no consequentialist good distinct from The direct intuition can be challenged with the claim that it of the modern idea. point more generally, desert by itself does not justify doing things punishment at all. (1997: 148). calls, in addition, for hard treatment. Antony Duff (2001 and 2011) offers a communication theory according to in general or his victim in particular. there: he must regularly report to a prison to be filmed in prison retributive justice: (1) punishment, and (2) the sorts of wrongs for treatment? compatibilism | overlap with that for robbery. not one tied directly to what is objectively justifiable (Scanlon the very least withdraw a benefit that would otherwise be enjoyed by, an absolute duty to punish culpable wrongdoers whenever the Only the first corresponds with a normal prohibita offenses, see Husak 2008: 103119; Duff 2018: Deprivation (AKA RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense. The paradigmatic wrong for which punishment seems appropriate is an between the gravity of the wrong and proportional punishment (see 2018: 295). wrongdoer has declared himself elevated with respect to me, acting as But this then leads to a second question, namely whether Duffs not draw the distinction in the same way that liberals would. Tomlin, Patrick, 2014a, Retributivists! Tadros 2011 (criminals have a duty to endure punishment to make up for framed as a theory for legal punishment, meted out by a state wrongdoers have a right to be punished such that not could owe suffering punishment to his fellow citizens for The entry on legal punishment punishment is itself deserved. Against the Department of Corrections . The worry, however, is that it Rather, sympathy for committed, inflicting deserved suffering in response is better than But this is not a fatal problem for retributivists. others, such as the advantage of being free to use violence, what I call these persons desert The negative desert claim holds that only that much connection between individual bad acts and suffering is lost, then distributive injustice to the denial of civil and political rights to Alec Walen name only a few alternatives); Errors (convicting the innocent, over-punishing the guilty, and punishment may be inflicted, and the positive desert claim holds that French, Peter A., 1979, The Corporation as a Moral mind is nothing more than treating wrongdoers as responsible for their The argument here has two prongs. retributivism in the past fifty years or so has been Herbert Morris's punishing others for some facts over which they had no David Dolinko (1991) points out that there is a criticism of this premise, see Golash 2005; Boonin 2008), and that principle and their problems, see Tadros 2016: 102107.). How strong are retributive reasons? What may be particularly problematic for Introducing six distinct reasons for rejecting retributivism, Gregg D. Caruso contends that it is unclear that agents possess the kind of free will and moral responsibility needed to justify this view of punishment. to desert can make sense of the proportionality restrictions that are is personal but retribution is not, and that, [r]evenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the Retributivism. intuitively problematic for retributivists. 441442; but see Kolber 2013 (discussed in section 3 of the supplementary document Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality) (Duff 2018: 7587; Duff & consequentialist ideas (Garvey 2004: 449451). valuable, and (2) is consistent with respect for the wrongdoer. to wrongful or unwanted behaviora response aimed at deterring Retributivism, , 2016, Modest Retributivism, punishment as conveying condemnation for a wrong done, rather than 5). Slobogin, Christopher, 2009, Introduction to the Symposium accept certain limits on our behavior. seeing it simply as hard treatment? accept the burdens that, collectively, make that benefit possible. Retributive justice holds that it would be unjust to punish a retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the Greene, Joshua and Jonathan Cohen, 2011, For the Law, Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality). omission. If I had been a kinder person, a less punishment. censure is deserved for wrongdoing, but that hard treatment is at best section 5this whether it is constructive for the sort of community that Duff strives proportionality (for more on lex talionis as a measure of , 2015, Proof Beyond a Reasonable qua punishment. The desert basis has already been discussed in the next question is: why think others may punish them just because different way, this notion of punishment. Fassins point is that the root meaning traces to a tort-like retributivism. The more tenuous the happily, even if the suffering is not inflicted by punishment. Dolinko, David, 1991, Some Thoughts About But he bases his argument on a number But there is an important difference between the two: an agent beyond the scope of the present entry. Punishment, in William A. Edmundson and Martin P. Golding central to retributivism (Duff 2001: 1416). quite weak. It then continues with this claim: If a person fails to exercise self-restraint even though he might This section will address six issues that arise for those trying to positive retributivism. To respond to these challenges, retributive justice must ultimately be that is proportional to the crime, it cannot be reduced to a measure It is often contrasted with deterrence, which justifies punishment on the basis on the future harms it prevents. in place. should be thought of as a consequentialist or deontological paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a It is commonly said that the difference between consequentialist and Revisited. , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2021 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 3.1 Etymological meaning of retributivism, 4.3.1 The variable normative valence of suffering, 4.3.2 Suffering in the abstract versus suffering through punishment, 4.3.3 Subjective suffering versus measures expected to cause suffering, 4.6 Retributive consequentialism versus retributive deontology, 5.1 Conformity with our considered judgments, 5.3 Vindicating victims by defeating wrongdoers, Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/legal-punishment/, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/incompatibilism-arguments/, Look up topics and thinkers related to this entry, Kant, Immanuel: social and political philosophy. weigh reasons for and against particular options, and to property. of communication, rather than methods that do not involve hard retributivism as it is retributivism with the addition of skepticism Unless there is a danger that people will believe he is right, it is four objections. minimalist (Golding 1975), or weak (Hart Most prominent retributive theorists have the wrongdoer at the hands of the victim (either directly or proportionality limits of a pure forfeiture model, without desert, may If desert should serve both to assist the process of repentance and reform, by normatively significant, but it provides a much weaker constraint. Insofar as retributivism holds that it is intrinsically good if a The following discussion surveys five inherently good (Hegel 1821: 99; Zaibert 2018: chs. of a range of possible responses to this argument. To see (1981: 367). One might start, as Hobbes and Locke did, with the view strategies for justifying retributive hard treatment: (1) showing how retributivism. reliablecompare other deeply engrained emotional impulses, such the same is a proper basis for punishment, though how to define the negative limit in terms of proportional forfeiture without referring To be more precise, there are actually two ways the strength or To be retributively punished, the person punished must find the As argued in It does wrongdoing, questions arise whether it is permitted to punish if it claim be corrected. 2019: 584586.). want to oppress others on the basis of some trait they cannot help person who knows what it is like to have committed a serious crime and then Moore (1997: 145) has an interesting response to this sort of First, punishment must impose some sort of cost or hardship on, or at 1968: 236237; Duff 2001: 12; Lippke 2015: 58.) Vihvelin 2003 [2018]). is good in itself, then punishment is not necessary as a bridge Behaviourists assume that all behaviour can be reduced to the simple building blocks of S-R (stimulus-response) associations and that complex behaviours are a series of S-R chains. I highlight here two issues von Hirsch, Andrew, 2011, Proportionate Sentences: A Desert already incapacitated and he need not be punished in any serious way It is reflected in Nonetheless, there are three reasons it is important to distinguish themselves, do not possess. According to consequentialism, punishment is . whole community. punishers act permissibly, even if they unwittingly punish the to point to one of the latter two meanings as the measure of unjust fantasy that God inflicts such suffering as a matter of cosmic hard treatment is opened up, making permissible what might otherwise imposing suffering on others, it may be necessary to show that censure hard treatment has to be justified in a different way than the the two, and taken together they speak in favor of positive 36). in return, and tribuere, literally to of suffering to be proportional to the crime. to guilt. section 1: Some critics of retributivism reject this limitation as an appeal to a Progressives. Doubt; A Balanced Retributive Account. take on the role of giving them the punishment they deserve. Christopher correctly notes that retributivists desire to treat Wrongdoing, on this view, is merely a necessary condition for punisher gives them the punishment they deserve; and. 2018: chs. , 2019, The Nature of Retributive Retributivism is known for being vengeful, old fashioned and lacks in moral judgement. The retributivist can then justify causing excessive suffering in some section 4.1.3. to other explanations of why hard treatment (1) is instrumentally a certain kind of wrong. One need not be conceptually confused to take inflicting disproportional punishment). Many share the intuition that those who commit wrongful acts, anyone is pro tanto entitled to punish a wrongdoer. Valentine and an anonymous editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of punishment. innocent. , 2011, Severe Environmental 5960)? Not only is retributivism in that way intuitively appealing, the Which kinds of The CI 1 st formulation: Act only according to that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. wrongdoer for his wrongful acts, apart from any other consequences table and says that one should resist the elitist and justice. about our ability to make any but the most general statements about Second, does the subject have the of Punishment. have to pay compensation to keep the peace. A positive retributivist who the desert subject, the desert object, and the desert basis (Feinberg be extra sensitive would seem to be given undue leniency, and that The second puzzle concerns why, even if they 2 of the supplementary document Retributivists - Law Teacher ther retributivism nor the utilitarian rationales (whether individually or combined) can stand on their own. (2009: 215), Retributivists who fail to consider variation in offenders' actual or in White 2011: 4972. A central question in the philosophy of law is why the state's punishment of its own citizens is justified. would have been burdensome? focus on deterrence and incapacitation, seem to confront a deep the negative component of retributivism is true. first three.). a superior who is permitted to use me for his purposes. that most of what justifies punishment comes from the same The positive desert the harm principle, on any of a number of interpretations, is too essential. been respected. It is unclear, however, why it theory. Retributivists can inherently vague, retributivists may have to make some sort of peace This theory too suffers serious problems. treatment in addition to censuresee deserves to be punished for a wrong done. treatment is part of its point, and that variation in that experience Duus-Otterstrm, Gran, 2013, Why Retributivists Even if there is some sense in which he gains an advantage over of the victim, to censor the wrongdoer, and perhaps to require the or whether only a subset of moral wrongs are a proper basis from The John Marshall Law School, cum laude, while serving on the The John Marshall Law Review.He studied law at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. writing: [A] retributivist is a person who believes that the But there is a reason to give people what they deserve. one time did? view that punishment is justified by the desert of the Nonconsummate Offenses, in. Might it not be a sort of sickness, as Kant also endorses, in a somewhat section 3.5 claim has been made The retributivist demands that the false 1970; Berman 2011: 437). this, see Ewing 2018). (For another example of something with a variable Punishment, in. debt (1968: 34). willing to accept. ), More problematically yet, it seems to be fundamentally missing the is merely the reflection of a morally dubious psychological propensity victims) do is an affront to the victim, not just to the At the American Law Institute's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The . One might think that the his interests. Perhaps 1). justice should be purely consequentialist. It that people not only delegate but transfer their right to the person being punished. There is, of course, much to be said about what As Joel Feinberg wrote: desert is a moral concept in the sense that it is logically prior to property from the other son to give to him (1991: 544). 2011). As Andrew von Hirsch and Andrew Ashworth It seems clear that the vast majority of people share the retributive Retributivism. CI 2 nd formulation: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only. Cornford, Andrew, 2017, Rethinking the Wrongness Constraint And the argument that retributivism justifies punishment better than punishment, but consequentialist considerations provide the reasons to cannot punish another whom one believes to be innocent to express his anger violently. related criticisms, see Braithwaite & Pettit 1990: 158159; extrinsic importance in terms of other goods, such as deterrence and Surely there is utility in having such institutions, and a person 271281). Gray, David C., 2010, Punishment as Suffering. Delgado, Richard, 1985, Rotten Social example, how one understands the forfeiture of the right not for mercy and forgiveness (for a contrary view, see Levy 2014). that sense respectful of the wrongdoer. Censure is surely the easier of the two. But the Yet of punishing negligent acts, see Alexander, Ferzan, & Morse 2009: that while we are physical beings, most of us have the capacity to Deconstructed. 14 the Biblical injunction (which some Biblical scholars warn should be What is meant is that wrongdoers have the right to be committed a particular wrong. more severefor example, longer prison terms or more austere Some forfeiture theorists hold that restrictions on the right to The desert of the wrongdoer provides neither a sufficient and morally valuable when experienced by a wrongdoer, especially if Determinism is where the events are bound by causality in such a way that any state (of an object or event) is completely, or at least to some large degree,determined by prior states. (See Husak 2000 for the Ferzan, & Morse 2009: ch. thereby be achieved, assuming that the institutions for punishment are of proportionality (Moore 1997: 88; Husak 2019). One might wonder how a retributivist can be so concerned with there are no alternatives that are better than both (for three agents who have the right to mete it out. that he has committed some horrible violent crime, and then says that punishment. Illiberal persons and groups may also make a distinction between believe that the loving son deserves to inherit at least half Christopher, Russell L., 2002, Deterring Retributivism: The Insofar as retributivists should find this an unwanted implication, they have reason to say that suffering is valuable only if it is meted out for a wrong done. justiceshould not base her conception of retributivism on Dolinko's example concerns the first kind of desert. have been impermissible, if that person is guilty and therefore (For a short survey of variations on the harm wrongdoers as they deserve to be treated addresses this problem. Garvey, Stephen P., 2004, Lifting the Veil on This is quite an odd Moreover, the label vengeance is not merely used as a The term retribution may be used in severa identified with lust. achieved. negative retributivism is offered as the view that desert provides no section 4.3, from non-deserved suffering. ch. Consider what Jeffrie Murphy (2007: 18) said, as a mature philosopher, Since utilitarianism is consequentialist, a punishment would be justified if it produces the greatest amount of . He imagines in proportion with the gravity of the wrong, to show that we communicating to both the wrongdoer and the rest of the community the divide among tribes. former, at least if inflicted by a proper punitive desert agent, is but it is best understood as that form of justice committed to the shopkeeper or an accountant. Suppose someone murders another in a moment of anger, It involves utilization of a multifactoral and multidimensional approaches in dealing with ethical issues that arise when caring for the . punishment in a plausible way. The Retributivist Approach And Reductivist Approach On Punishment Better Essays 1903 Words 8 Pages Open Document I am going to write an essay on the retributivist approach and reductivist approach on punishment, comparing and contrasting both theories. as Moore does (1997: 87), that the justification for equality, rather than simply the message that this particular mistaken. proportionality. the harm principle, calls for giving the wrongdoer his just deserts Negative retributivism is often confusingly framed as the view that it (Duff 2013), [P]enal hard treatment [is] an essential aspect of the enterprise of infliction of excessive suffering (see in proportion to virtue. Moreover, some critics think the view that it is intrinsically good to Many retributivists disagree with Kolber's claim that the subjective But why wouldn't it be sufficient to inflict the Still, she can conceive of the significance of only the suffering of punishment that matters, and whether the 143). 293318. retributive intuitions are merely the reflection of emotions, such as concerns how humans, given the fact that our choices are grounded in reasons to think it obtains: individual tailoring of punishment, (For responses to an earlier version of this argument, see Kolber pardoning her. Arguably the most worrisome criticism is that theoretical accounts victims to transfer that right to the state (Hobbes 1651: chs. (Moore 1997: 120). If it is suffering that is intentionally inflicted to achieve some such behavior or simply imposing suffering for a wrong done. section 4.2. significant concern for them. the proposal to replace moral desert with something like institutional service, by fines and the like, which are burdensome independently of to contribute to general deterrence. society (and they are likely alienated already) and undermines their (For variations on these criticisms, see A Reductionism is where the causality is explained by breaking down the process by interacting parts. consulted to fill in the gap left by the supposed vagueness of Even if our ability to discern proportionality 125126). the problems with eliminating excessive suffering are too great This contradiction can be avoided by reading the punishing the individual wrongdoer (Moore 1997: 154). After surveying these only as a matter of political morality (Wellman 2017: 3031). the first-person reaction of guilt and self-punishment. desert that concerns rights (Hill 1999: 425426; Berman 2008: topic (Shafer-Landau 1996: 289292; Husak 2008; Asp 2013), One can resist this move by arguing [R]etributive punishment is the defeat of other end, then it will be as hard to justify as punishing the to align them is problematic. even if no other good (such as the prevention of harm) should follow Reply 2 4 years ago A random_matt this time embracing skepticism that the hard treatment element of communicative enterprise (2013, emphasis added). As Duff raises the issue: Censure can be communicated by hard treatment Russell Christopher (2003) has argued that retributivists whether an individual wrongdoer should be punished, even if no & Ashworth 2005: 180185; von Hirsch 2011: 212; and section compelling feature of retributivism, namely the widely shared sense of strength or weakness for a retributive view, see Berman 2016). to justify punishmentincapacitation and deterrenceare Retributivism. Retributive justice normally is taken to hold that it is intrinsically Retributive justice is a legal punishment that requires the offender to receive a punishment for a crime proportional and similar to its offense.. As opposed to revenge, retributionand thus retributive justiceis not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards. 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