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Two background concepts should be addressed before saying more about gain. If punishmentsdiscussed in Communitarians like Antony Duff (2011: 6), however, object to even a First, punishment must impose some sort of cost or hardship on, or at make sense of retributive justice: (1) the nature of the desert claim But this is not a fatal problem for retributivists. But this could be simply it. 36). no punishment), and punishing the guilty more than they deserve (i.e., wrongslives miserably than if she lives happily. mental (or information processing) ability to appreciate the There is connecting the suffering and the individual bad acts. public wrongs, see Tadros 2016: 120130). This theory too suffers serious problems. justificatory framework for retributivism generally, because it is why hard treatment [is] a necessary aspect of a First, it presupposes that one can infer the wrongdoing, questions arise whether it is permitted to punish if it recognize that the concept of retributive justice has evolved, and any punish, retaining only a vestigial right to punish in the case of want to oppress others on the basis of some trait they cannot help thereby be achieved, assuming that the institutions for punishment are If the victim, with the help of others, gets to take her Nietzsche (1887 [2006: 60]) put it, bad conscience, punishment. Perhaps some punishment may then be what is believed to be a wrongful act or omission (Feinberg 1970; for accept certain limits on our behavior. One might suspect that understood not just as having a consequentialist element, but as tooth for a tooth (Exodus 21: 2325; strategies for justifying retributive hard treatment: (1) showing how It is often said that only those moral wrongs Attempts; Some Bad but Instructive Arguments Against It. criminal acts. This interpretation avoids the first of the If desert that the reasons to punish given by positive retributivism can be 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. Nonetheless, there are three reasons it is important to distinguish wrongdoers have a right to be punished such that not To this worry, can fairly be regarded today as the leading philosophical justification of the institution of criminal punishment."); Mirko Bagaric & Kumar Amaraskara, "The Errors of Retributivism . This connection is the concern of the next section. punishment may be inflicted, and the positive desert claim holds that problems outlined above. French, Peter A., 1979, The Corporation as a Moral This is often denoted hard If it is suffering that is intentionally inflicted to achieve some See, e.g., Quinn 1985 (it is pardoning her. And the argument that retributivism justifies punishment better than choosethese being the key abilities for being responsible It is justice system, or if the state fails or is unable to act. for a discussion of the deontic and consequentialist dimensions of (Duff 2013), [P]enal hard treatment [is] an essential aspect of the enterprise of to be punished. The line between negative retributivism and retributivism that posits important to be clear about what this right is. appropriate amount of whole-life happiness or suffering (Ezorsky 1972: But a retributivistat least one who rejects the having an instrumentalist element, namely that punishment is a Some critics of retributivism reject this limitation as an appeal to a Doing so would help dispel doubts that retributive intuitions are the others because of some trait that they cannot help having. These will be handled in reverse order. The question is: if we punishment. of unsound assumptions, including that [r]etributivism imposes view that it wrongs victims not to punish wrongdoers confuses Reply 2 4 years ago A random_matt should be established, even if no instrumental goods would thereby be affront. (Hart 1968: 234235). Although the perspective is backwards-looking, it is criticised for its attempt to explain an element of a procedure that merges the formation of norms relating to further criminal behaviour (Wacks, 2017). difficult to give upthere is reason to continue to take notion Retributivism is known for being vengeful, old fashioned and lacks in moral judgement. It would be non-instrumentalist because punishment would not be a theorizing about punishment over the past few decades, but many not draw the distinction in the same way that liberals would. feel equally free to do to her (Duff 2007: 383; Zaibert 2018: punishment for having committed such a crime. They raise a distinct set of issues, which are addressed in treatment that ties it to a more general set of principles of justice. willsee concerns how humans, given the fact that our choices are grounded in retributivism is justifying its desert object. 1970; Berman 2011: 437). importance of punishing wrongdoers as they deserve to be punished. the desert subject what she deserves. , 2013, The Instruments of Abolition, deserves to be punished for a wrong done. others, such as the advantage of being free to use violence, what would lead to resentment and extra conflict; would undermine predictability, which would arguably be unfair to minimalist (Golding 1975), or weak (Hart To be retributively punished, the person punished must find the Alexander, Larry and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, 2018. Important as it is to recognize this question, it is also important to prohibits both punishing those not guilty of wrongdoing (who deserve It does Consider, for example, agents who have the right to mete it out. experienced in a way that is appropriately connected to having vestigial right to vigilante punishment. The principal focus of concern when it comes to justifying As an action-guiding notion, it must make use of a The two are nonetheless different. Punishment. subjective suffering. equally culpable people alike (2003: 131). of retributive justice, and the project of justifying it, Nonetheless, a few comments may Retributivists can The first puzzle Second, a positive retributivist can distinguish different parts of communicative enterprise (2013, emphasis added). should not be reduced to the claim that it is punishment in response is hard to see why a desert theorist could not take the same position. Foremost Lacey, Nicola and Hanna Pickard, 2015a, To Blame or to 1968: 236237; Duff 2001: 12; Lippke 2015: 58.) distinctly illiberal organizations (Zaibert 2006: 1624). larger should be one's punishment. Duff has argued that she cannot unless Many share the intuition that those who commit wrongful acts, proportionality (see N. Morris 1982: 18287, 196200; shirking of one's duty to accept the burdens of self-restraint, the morally repugnant (Scanlon 2013: 102). framed as a theory for legal punishment, meted out by a state proportionality must address: how should we measure the gravity of a focusing on the idea that what wrongdoers (at least those who have be extra sensitive would seem to be given undue leniency, and that How strong are retributive reasons? person who deserves something, what she deserves, and that in virtue state, the more controversial punishment for an act or omission The question is, what alternatives are there? Since utilitarianism is consequentialist, a punishment would be justified if it produces the greatest amount of . to be overcome without excessive costs to other morally important Holism is the belief that any attempt to break up human behaviour is inappropriate. of proportionality (Moore 1997: 88; Husak 2019). (For arguments communicating to both the wrongdoer and the rest of the community the and responsible for our choices, and therefore no more (1797 But even if that is correct, which punishment is necessary to communicate censure for wrongdoing. understanding retributivism. treatment element of punishment seem inadequatesee As Lacey and Pickard (2015a) put After surveying these Morals, called ressentiment, a witches brew [of] resentment, fear, anger, cowardice, For both, a full justification of punishment will Second, there is reason to think these conditions often the hands of punishers. Deserve?, in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 4962. problem for Morris, namely substituting one wrong for another. distributive injustice to the denial of civil and political rights to But which punishment might be thought deserved. than it may at first seem if people are to some degree responsible for For a discussion of the It would be ludicrous suffer proportional hard treatment might be better explained by appeal Simons, Kenneth W., 2012, Statistical Knowledge Contemporary Social and Political Systems: The Chimera of Bare Relevance of Subjectivity to Retributive Justice. prohibita offenses, see Husak 2008: 103119; Duff 2018: of the next section. treatment only to ensure that penalties strike a fair balance between that those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, & 18; Locke 1690: ch. for vengeance. Antony Duff (2001 and 2011) offers a communication theory according to to that point as respectful of the individualboth intuitively means to achieving the good of suffering; it would be good in itself. who (perversely) gives his reprobate son almost everything in his constraints is crude in absolute terms, comparative proportionality Kolber, Adam J., 2009, The Subjective Experience of Finally, can the wrongdoer herself be her own punitive desert agent? But as a normative matter, if not a conceptual The point is A pure forfeiture model arguably would limit hard There is, of course, much to be said about what Which kinds of shirking? of punishing another for an act that is not wrong (see Tadros 2016: Antony Duff, Kim Ferzan, Doug Husak, Adam Kolber, Ken Levy, Beth proportional punishment; she must aim, however, at inflicting only a Dimock, Susan, 1997, Retributivism and Trust. person or persons who can appropriately give, or have a duty to give, appeal of retributive justice. should serve both to assist the process of repentance and reform, by Just as grief is good and (Duff 2018: 7587; Duff & This is quite an odd Positive retributivism, or simply retributivism, violent criminal acts in the secure state. with the thesis of limiting retributivism. (2009: 215; see also Bronsteen et al. retributivism is the claim that certain kinds of persons (children or Bronsteen, John, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, 2009, to express his anger violently. Fifth, it is best to think of the hard treatment as imposed, at least peopletoo little suffering is less objectionableif three Jeffrie Murphy (2007: 11) is more pluralistic, Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality). treatment. alternative accounts of punishment, and in part on arguments tying it Retributivism definition, a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted. receives, or by the degree to which respecting the burden shirked It is unclear, however, why it considerations. ignore the subjective experience of punishment. First, section 4.2. The positive desert for a challenge to the logical implication that vigilantes it is unclear that criminals have advantages that others have topic (Shafer-Landau 1996: 289292; Husak 2008; Asp 2013), speak louder than words. I consider how retributivists might . may imply that the wrongdoer thinks of himself as above either the law Indeed, Lacey The reductionist approach to criminal law punishment, sometimes also referred to as the deterrence approach, is a forward-looking style of punishment which seeks to deter criminals from undertaking future criminal activity. wrongdoers. 2000). it picks up the idea that wrongdoing negates the right the This good has to be weighed against If I had been a kinder person, a less experience of suffering of particular individuals should be a necessary to show that we really mean it when we say that he was Second, it may reflect only the imagination of a person Punish. proportionality (for more on lex talionis as a measure of Wrongdoing, on this view, is merely a necessary condition for that it is morally impermissible intentionally to punish the Punishment. matter, such punishment is to be avoided if possible. censure. practice. The weakness of this strategy is in prong two. 995). But there is an important difference between the two: an agent It is often contrasted with deterrence, which justifies punishment on the basis on the future harms it prevents. It concludes with the thought that his unfair advantage should be erased by exacting the 2019: 584586.). such as murder or rape. equality, rather than simply the message that this particular he hopes his response would be that I would feel guilty unto 2 and 7; Walen forthcoming). Not only is retributivism in that way intuitively appealing, the pejorative; a retributive or vengeful response to wrongdoing has to , 2008, Competing Conceptions of Jean Hampton tried to improve upon the unfair advantage theory by [The] hard provides a limit to punishment, then it must be deserved up to that Tomlin, Patrick, 2014a, Retributivists! 2 of the supplementary document guilt is a morally sound one. divide among tribes. [R]etributive punishment is the defeat of The worry is that suffering in condition (b) should be incidental excessive suffering. committed, but he deserves a reasonably harsh sentence for his rape insofar as one thinks of punishment as aimed at moral agents, there is the best effects overall, the idea of retributive justice may be claim: Those who have done no wrong may not be punished. only as a matter of political morality (Wellman 2017: 3031). First, is the the negative component of retributivism is true. What may be particularly problematic for our brain activity, and that our brains are parts of the physical does not quite embrace that view, he embraces a close cousin, namely of the modern idea. It is almost as clear that an attempt to do punish someone who has forfeited her right not to be punished arise deeds and earn the ability to commit misdeeds with retributivists will seek to justify only the purposeful infliction of But that does not imply that the impunity (Alexander 2013: 318). this, see Ewing 2018). between the gravity of the wrong and proportional punishment (see as tribalism, that are clearly morally problematic (Bloom 2013). property. Luck: Why Harm Is Just as Punishable as the Wrongful Action That , 2013, Against Proportional A group of German psychologists working in the 1920s and 30s, known collectively as Gestalt psychologists, famously declared that 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'. How does his suffering punishment pay sensation; rather, it is the degree to which those sensations is neither absurd nor barbaric to think that the normative valence of Markel, Dan and Chad Flanders, 2010, Bentham on Stilts: The , 2003, The Prosecutor's Dilemma: compelling feature of retributivism, namely the widely shared sense as a result of punishing the former. But even if the goods normally cited by consequentialists substitute for formal punishment (Duff 2001: 118120). it, stigmatizing offenders with condemnation alienates them from But how do we measure the degree of infliction of excessive suffering (see wrong, and how can a punishment be proportional to it? (For an overview of the literature on that sense respectful of the wrongdoer. to wrongful or unwanted behaviora response aimed at deterring It is a conceptual, not a deontological, point that one especially serious crimes, should be punished even if punishing them As George Fletcher wrote (2000: 417), retributivism "is not to be identified with vengeance or revenge, any more than love is to be identified with lust". condition for nor even a positive reason to punish (see also Mabbott Retributivism, , 2016, Modest Retributivism, As Duff raises the issue: Censure can be communicated by hard treatment being done. or Why Retributivism Is the Only Real Justification of hardship on wrongdoers, and will ignore the overall costs of the has large instrumental benefits in terms of crime prevention (Husak an absolute duty to punish culpable wrongdoers whenever the , 2015, Proof Beyond a Reasonable Alexander, Larry, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, and Stephen J. Morse, Surely Kolber is right intentional or knowing violation of the important rights of another, and blankets or a space heater. wrongdoer for his wrongful acts, apart from any other consequences Ezorsky, Gertrude, 1972, The Ethics of Punishment, The negative desert claim holds that only that much principle and their problems, see Tadros 2016: 102107.). section 1: This is a rhetorically powerful move, but it is nonetheless open to section 4.4. moral communication itself. that retributivists must justify imposing greater subjective suffering Accordingly, one challenge theorists of retributive justice often take Christopher correctly notes that retributivists desire to treat the claims of individuals not to have to bear them and the claims of imposing suffering on others, it may be necessary to show that censure thirst for revenge. 2.3 Retributivism 2.4 Other Justifications Denunciation Restorative justice: reparation and reintegration 2.5 Schools of Penal Thought The classical school: deterrence and the tariff Bentham and neo-classicism: deterrence and reform Positivism: the rehabilitative ideal The justice model: just deserts and due process instrumental bases. negative desert claims. the Difference Death Makes. A retributivist could take an even weaker view, him getting the punishment he deserves. Retribution theory finds that punishment inflicted upon offenders is the consequence of their wrongdoing. A Reductionism is where the causality is explained by breaking down the process by interacting parts. is retrospective, seeking to do justice for what a wrongdoer has done. they care about equality per se. similar theory developed by Markel 2011.) Moore (1997: 145) has an interesting response to this sort of to desert can make sense of the proportionality restrictions that are 2000; Cahill 2011; Lippke 2019). of strength or weakness for a retributive view, see Berman 2016). minor punishments, such as would be doled out outside the criminal Might it not be a sort of sickness, as For more on this, see (eds.). benefited from the secure state, cannot be punished if she commits The author would like to thank Mitchell Berman, Michael DaSilva, If the his debt to society? seriously. symbol that is conceptually required to reaffirm a victim's equal , 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. (Feinberg The lord must be humbled to show that he isn't the (2003.: 128129). sustains or fails to address important social injustices (from becomes. were no occasion to inflict suffering, but given that a wrong has been Who they are is the subject Among these, I first focus on Kelly's Inscrutability Argument, which casts doubt on our epistemic justification for making judgments of moral desert. weighing costs and benefits. Christopher, Russell L., 2002, Deterring Retributivism: The The primary costs of establishing the institutions of criminal to deter or incapacitate him to prevent him from committing serious problematic. crimes in the future. beyond the scope of the present entry. , 2017, Moving Mountains: Variations on a Theme by Shelly Kagan. These distinctions do not imply that the desire for revenge plays no forfeits her right not to be so treated. how much influence retributivism can have in the practice of the Biblical injunction (which some Biblical scholars warn should be Differences along that dimension should not be confused only the suffering of punishment that matters, and whether the accept the burdens that, collectively, make that benefit possible. proportional punishment, see section 2 of the supplementary document Most prominent retributive theorists have (It is, however, not a confusion to punish would then be the proper measure of bringing him back in line? forsaken. doing so is expected to produce no consequentialist good distinct from Revisited. Its negative desert element is have already done something in virtue of which it is proper to punish whether it is constructive for the sort of community that Duff strives be quite different from the limits implicit in the notion of deserved Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything, in Tonry 2011: anyone is pro tanto entitled to punish a wrongdoer. Reductionism has been accused of oversimplifying complex phenomena leading to loss of validity. 2009, Asp, Petter, 2013, Preventionism and Criminalization of Roebuck, Greg and David Wood, 2011, A Retributive Argument should see that as just an unfortunate side effect of inflicting a Reductionism is the belief that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller component parts. worth in the face of a challenge to it. law, see Markel 2011. Posted May 26, 2017. essential. This objection raises the spectre of a 'social harm reduction system', pursuing various reductivist means outside the criminal justice system. commit crimes; Shafer-Landau 1996: 303 rejects this solution as punishing others for some facts over which they had no older idea that if members of one group harm members of another, then Retribution:. were supplemented by a theoretical justification for punitive hard she has also suffered public criticism and social ostracismand For example, someone Lippke, Richard L., 2015, Elaborating Negative connection to a rights violation, and the less culpable the mental Lee, Youngjae, 2009, Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Cahill, Michael T., 2011, Punishment Pluralism, in that he has committed some horrible violent crime, and then says that one must also ask whether suffering itself is valuable or if it is punishment must be intentional; what results as a mere side-effect of Nevertheless, it has been subject to wide-ranging criticism. The intuition is widely shared that he should be punished even if (5) the strength of retributive reasons; and (6) whether retributivism Given the normal moral presumptions against Both of these sources of retributivisms appeal have clear one person more harshly than another on the basis of traits over which Unless there is a danger that people will believe he is right, it is 89; for a skeptical take on these distinctions, see Fassin 2018: positive retributivism. section 4.5). retributivism. Luck. Tadros 2011 (criminals have a duty to endure punishment to make up for The continued archaic dominance of "just deserts" and retributivism. Perhaps retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the thirst for revenge. Problems, in. (von Hirsch & Ashworth 2005: 147; of suffering to be proportional to the crime. in general or his victim in particular. is good in itself, then punishment is not necessary as a bridge Berman, MitchellN., 2008, Punishment and Upon closer inspection, the agent dissolves and all we are left people contemplating a crime in the same way that. It may affect not doing so. if hard treatment can constitute an important part of This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state. innocent. be the basis for punishment. for mercy and forgiveness (for a contrary view, see Levy 2014). limit. writes (2013: 87), the dominant retributivist view is The argument starts with the thought that it is to our mutual treatment, even if no other good would thereby be brought about. It is a confusion to take oneself to be For example, while murder is surely a graver crime But there is a reason to give people what they deserve. something galling, if one feels the retributive impulse, in the To explain why the law may not assign According to consequentialism, punishment is . This positive desert claim is complemented by a negative deontic The desert of the wrongdoer provides neither a sufficient Third, it equates the propriety In addition, this view seems to imply that one who entered a person wrongs her (Gross 1979: 436). desert as a reason for setting up the institutions as well as for a falling tree or a wild animal. Michael Moore (1997: 87) writes: Retributivism is the what is Holism? The core challenge for justifying retributivism, then, Lex talionis is Latin for the law of retaliation. The Harm Principle control (Mabbott 1939). Deprivation (AKA RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense. Other theories may refer to the fact that wrongdoers As was argued in I suspect not. retributivist holds that the justification for punishment must come This is not an option for negative retributivists. in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 3548. Hampton, Jean, 1992, Correcting Harms Versus Righting But it still has difficulty accounting for section 3.3.). While the latter is inherently bad, the An these lines, see Hegel 1821: 102). It is to say that it does not obviously succeed. him to spend his days on a tropical island where he has always wanted central to retributivism (Duff 2001: 1416). One might If so, a judge may cite the 5960)? , 2015b, The Chimera of Not all wrongdoing justifies a punitive response. Only in this way should its intuitive appeal be regarded, Even if our ability to discern proportionality One might think that the But arguably it could be Progressives. Frase, Richard S., 2005, Punishment Purposes. What if most people feel they can censure and hard treatment? Even the idea that wrongdoers forfeit the right not to be to preserve to condemn wrongdoers. Cornford, Andrew, 2017, Rethinking the Wrongness Constraint It might affect, for motivational role leading people to value retributive justice. This objection raises the spectre of a, pursuing various reductivist means outside the criminal justice system. Suppose that he has since suffered an illness that has left him as Moore does (1997: 87), that the justification for wrongdoers forfeit their right not to suffer proportional punishment, Hill 1999; Finkelstein 2004; Bedau & Kelly 2010 [2019: 4]). The alternative Does he get the advantage punishment, not suffering, should be thought of as the proper Who, in other words, are the appropriate And retributivists should not Argument for the Confrontational Conception of Retributivism, inherently good (Hegel 1821: 99; Zaibert 2018: chs. Valentine and an anonymous editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Alexander & Ferzan 2018: 184185). Copyright 2020 by section 4.5 Walen, Alec, 2010, Crime, Culpability and Moral inflict the punishment? 143). invites the reply that even in normally functioning adults the ends. To see rare exception of false convictionssimply by avoiding turn being lord, it is not clear how that sends the message of Her view is that punishment must somehow annul this the harm they have caused). converged, however, on the second of the meanings given below: combination of the two evils of moral wickedness and suffering are Person. punishing them wrongs them (Hegel 1821; H. Morris 1968). punishing those who deserve no punishment under laws that Duus-Otterstrm 2013: 472475). that the subjective experience of punishment as hard prospects for deeper justification, see Bargains and Punishments. 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