Retributive Parsimony |
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Authors: | Richard L Lippke |
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Institution: | (1) Indiana University, Bloomington, USA |
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Abstract: | Retributive approaches to the justification of legal punishment are often thought to place exacting and unattractive demands
on state officials, requiring them to expend scarce public resources on apprehending and punishing all offenders strictly
in accordance with their criminal ill deserts. Against this caricature of the theory, I argue that retributivists can urge
parsimony in the use of punishment. After clarifying what parsimony consists in, I show how retributivists can urge reductions
in the use of punishment in order to conserve scarce resources for other valuable social purposes, minimize the foreseeable
and adverse effects of legal punishment on the innocent, and accommodate the fact that existing societies fail in numerous
ways to satisfy the conditions that make retributive punishment fully justified. |
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