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- Title
Retributive Prepunishment.
- Authors
Adams, Joseph Q.
- Abstract
This paper argues that many of our most important theories of retributivism are unwittingly committed to the radical thesis that prepunishment--punishment before an offense--is morally permissible. From the perspective of diachronic justice on which these theories crucially depend, the timing of retribution is, ceteris paribus, irrelevant. But retributivism's counterintuitive support does not stop there: there are conditions under which pre-offense apprehension and punishment guarantees a higher probability of justice being done. Under these conditions, the popular retributive theories I have in mind do not just permit, but require, prepunishment.
- Subjects
LEX talionis; PUNISHMENT; CORRECTIONS (Criminal justice administration); NEW, Christopher; HAMPTON, Jean
- Publication
Social Theory & Practice, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0037-802X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/soctheorpract201339212