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- Title
Retributivism and Resources.
- Authors
RYBERG, JESPER
- Abstract
A traditional overall distinction between the various versions of retributive theories of punishment is that between positive and negative retributivism. This article addresses the question of what positive retributivism – and thus the obligation to punish perpetrators – implies for a society in which the state has many other types of obligation (e.g. obligations to provide its citizens with some degree of health care, education, protection, etc.). Several approaches to this question are considered. It is argued that the resource priority question constitutes a genuine and widely ignored challenge for positive retributivist theories of punishment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RETRIBUTION; OBLIGATIONS (Law); LEX talionis; MEDICAL care; NATIONAL health services; EDUCATION policy; PUNISHMENT
- Publication
Utilitas, 2013, Vol 25, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0953-8208
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0953820812000271