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1 lis 2014 · This chapter examines the central issues for the justification of criminalization and punishment in the context of criminal law. Specifically, it considers whether there is a class of acts (or omissions) that warrants the use of the label of crime as appropriate.
- 41 Types of Punishment
2 Critical Race Theory Notes. Notes. 3 Economic Analysis of...
- Acts and Actus Reus
Abstract. This chapter examines the concept of actus reus as...
- Constitutional Principles
Abstract. Contemporary criminal law is best understood as a...
- Necessity/Duress
This chapter examines the concepts of necessity and duress...
- Comparative Criminal Law
This is unfortunate. Much can be learned from comparing the...
- 31 Homicide
Historically, systems of criminal law have often emerged...
- International Criminal Law
This chapter is about international criminal law (ICL), a...
- Discretion
Abstract. This chapter focuses on the contemporary uses of...
- 41 Types of Punishment
8 sty 2023 · By evaluating punishment in terms of its effects on crime rates and social well-being, the Utilitarian theory suggests that we can determine the most effective approaches to punishment and use them to maximize the overall good for society.
28 sty 2020 · The concept of punishment as being the only possible form of reparation for serious human rights violations, as a means of satisfying victims, or even as the victims’ right, is a significant challenge to the traditional understanding of criminal law.
23 sie 2011 · Abstract. This chapter examines consequentialist theories, retributivism, and efforts either to combine features of both or to develop some entirely different approach. Punishment, it is said, can deter others from behaving as the criminal did (general deterrence), deter those punished from reoffending (special deterrence), alter the criminal's ...
This chapter examines the central issues for the justification of criminalization and pun ishment in the context of criminal law. Specifically, it considers whether there is a class of acts (or omissions) that warrants the use of the label of crime as appropriate.
24 mar 2023 · They consider which assumptions regarding freedom are foundational to the criminal law, and whether the possibility of determinism changes whom we punish and how. And they apply punishment theory to pressing social issues such as mass incarceration and the death penalty.
27 lis 2018 · Jean Hampton has argued that the ultimate aim of punishment is the prevention of crime (Hampton 1984, p. 211), but that offenders, like anyone else, can deserve only good (in this life, at least), not unproductive suffering. So punishment must be a good to the offender.
