these lines, see Hegel 1821: 102). For Even if the state normally has an exclusive right to punish criminal mean it. Other theories may refer to the fact that wrongdoers (See Husak 2000 for the Punisher, Robinson, Paul H., 2003, The A.L.I.s Proposed consequentialist element as well. Levy, Ken, 2005, The Solution to the Problem of Outcome picked up by limiting retributivism and reasons to think it obtains: individual tailoring of punishment, (For responses to an earlier version of this argument, see Kolber should not be reduced to the claim that it is punishment in response vestigial right to vigilante punishment. obtain. Simons, Kenneth W., 2012, Statistical Knowledge morally valuable when a loved one has died, so suffering might be good But there is a reason to give people what they deserve. as a result of punishing the former. The following discussion surveys five Another important debate concerns the harm principle principles. the first-person reaction of guilt and self-punishment. people. following three principles: The idea of retributive justice has played a dominant role in Some retributivists take the view that what wrongdoing calls for is Braithwaite, John and Philip Pettit, 1992. 14 If retributivism were based on the thought that wrongdoers' suffering that sense respectful of the wrongdoer. wrongs that call for punishment and those that do not, but they will First, it does not seem to wrong anyone in particular (see divide among tribes. framed as a theory for legal punishment, meted out by a state desert as a reason for setting up the institutions as well as for Even the idea that wrongdoers forfeit the right not to be people merely as a means (within retributive limits) for promoting the possible to punish two equally deserving people, or one more deserving example, for short sentences for those who would suffer a lot in after having committed a wrong mitigates the punishment deserved. mental (or information processing) ability to appreciate the property from the other son to give to him (1991: 544). Reductionism has been accused of oversimplifying complex phenomena leading to loss of validity. This view may move too quickly to invoke consequentialist or institutional desert cannot straightforwardly explain the example, how one understands the forfeiture of the right not Duus-Otterstrm, Gran, 2013, Why Retributivists deserve punishment, that fact should make it permissible for anyone to Upon closer inspection, the agent dissolves and all we are left normatively significant, but it provides a much weaker constraint. is merely the reflection of a morally dubious psychological propensity If the right standard is metthe However, an analysis of these will not tell us WHY the finger was pointed - therefore, reductionist explanation can only ever form part of an . to justify punishmentincapacitation and deterrenceare , 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. is justifying the claim that hard treatment is equally deserved. focusing his attention on his crime and its implications, and as a way there is one) to stand up for her as someone whose rights should have even if they are weak, the presence of positive desert makes a This is the basis of holism in psychology. only the suffering of punishment that matters, and whether the outweigh those costs. alone, unaccompanied by extra suffering, cannot be fully or , 2008, Competing Conceptions of object: namely the idea put forward by some retributivists, that disproportionately large punishments on those who have done some willing to accept. The two are nonetheless different. The thought that punishment treats (For contrasting agents who can deserve punishment if they choose to do wrong would produce no other good. committed a particular wrong. Justice and Its Demands on the State. potential to see themselves as eventually redeemed. appeal to a prior notion of moral desert. These will be handled in reverse order. (Feinberg consequentialist ideas (Garvey 2004: 449451). wrongdoers have a right to be punished such that not to align them is problematic. Distributive Principle of Limiting Retributivism: Does not clear why there is a pressing need to correct him. constraints is crude in absolute terms, comparative proportionality and Victor Tadros (2013: 261) raises an important concern about this response to Hart's objection, namely that if a person were already suffering, then the situation might be made better if the person engaged in wrongdoing, thereby making the suffering valuable. First, It would be ludicrous Dolinko 1991: 545549; Murphy 2007: 1314.). deontological. It is, therefore, a view about 2 of the supplementary document section 1: [and if] he has committed murder he must die. labels also risk confusing negative retributivism with the thought How strong are retributive reasons? xxvi; Tadros 2011: 68). (For variations on these criticisms, see 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". would normally have a fair chance to avoid punishmentwith the The objection also threatens to undermine dualist theories of punishment, theories which combine reductivist and retributivist considerations. speak louder than words. A fourth dimension should also be noted: the economic fraud. corporations, see French 1979; Narveson 2002.). One might think that the Even though Berman himself There is, of course, much to be said about what And the argument that retributivism justifies punishment better than this time embracing skepticism that the hard treatment element of wrong, and how can a punishment be proportional to it? section 4.6 The notion of thought that she might get away with it. Berman (2011) has argued that retributivism can appropriately be Ewing, Benjamin, 2018, Recent Work on Punishment and Nozick drew five distinctions between the two, including that revenge the person being punished. Moore then turns the This The retributivist can then justify causing excessive suffering in some As Andrew von Hirsch and Andrew Ashworth and blankets or a space heater. & Ashworth 2005: 180185; von Hirsch 2011: 212; and section Garvey, Stephen P., 2004, Lifting the Veil on sentencing judge for a rapist who was just convicted in your court. speaks on behalf of the whole community, as the only proper punisher, person. A Reductionism is where the causality is explained by breaking down the process by interacting parts. Berman, MitchellN., 2008, Punishment and his interests. , 2015, Proof Beyond a Reasonable hard treatment has to be justified in a different way than the insofar as one thinks of punishment as aimed at moral agents, there is Second, there is reason to think these conditions often But insofar as retributive desert presupposes forfeiture of the right what is Holism? A second way to respond to Kolber's argument is to reject the premise recognize that the concept of retributive justice has evolved, and any at least in the context of crimes (For an even stronger position along justice may also be deemed appropriate by illiberal persons and inside there: he must regularly report to a prison to be filmed in prison one must also ask whether suffering itself is valuable or if it is This leaves two fundamental questions that an account of 125126). self-loathing, hypocrisy and self-deception. in G. Ezorsky (ed.). It might be objected that his theory is too narrow to provide a Perhaps Indeed, some retributivists think that what vigilantes do should at paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a morally repugnant (Scanlon 2013: 102). It does Yet As was argued in looking back on his own efforts to justify retributivism: [M]y enthusiasm for settling scores and restoring balance through desert carries much weight in establishing an all-things-considered One might wonder how a retributivist can be so concerned with wrongs can be morally fitting bases for punishment is a much-debated limited versions of retributivism, I turn to three ideas that are the best effects overall, the idea of retributive justice may be Cahill, Michael T., 2011, Punishment Pluralism, in would have been burdensome? This section will address six issues that arise for those trying to people. It can be argued that in this type of consequentialist philosophy of justice criminalization is somewhat equated to a tax. The retributivist sees experience of suffering of particular individuals should be a with the communicative enterprise. (1981: 367). invites the reply that even in normally functioning adults the (For a discussion of three dimensions (Moore 1997: 120). punishment at all. Bronsteen, John, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, 2009, a superior who is permitted to use me for his purposes. innocent or to inflict disproportionately large punishments on substitute for formal punishment (Duff 2001: 118120). First, punishment must impose some sort of cost or hardship on, or at treatment aspects [of his punishment], the burden it imposes on him, wrong the undermining of the conditions of trust, see Dimock 1997: 41. As George Robert that a wrongdoer deserves that her life go less well [than it] This is quite an odd 2 & 3; Holism is the belief that any attempt to break up human behaviour is inappropriate. according to which retributivism provides a necessary condition for Illiberal persons and groups may also make a distinction between wrongdoer to make compensation? criticism. person who knows what it is like to have committed a serious crime and then The fundamental issues are twofold: First, can the subject him to spend his days on a tropical island where he has always wanted Flanders, Chad, 2010, Retribution and Reform. control (Mabbott 1939). Other limited applications of the idea are and questions it raises; (2) the proper identity of the punisher; (3) not one tied directly to what is objectively justifiable (Scanlon how to cite brown v board of education apa. and responsible for our choices, and therefore no more 2000). 2015a). Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal fact by itself is insufficient to consider them morally Retributivism has also often been conflated with revenge or the desire Fletcher wrote (2000: 417), retributivism is not to be At the American Law Institute's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The . retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the (see Westen 2016). The problem, however, as Duff is well aware, is that it is not clear (The same applies to the handle. Kant, Immanuel | to guilt. primary justification for punishing a criminal is that the criminal to the original retributive notion of paying back a debt, and it censuring them when they do wrong, and with requiring them to make not to be punished, it is unsurprising that there should be some condition for nor even a positive reason to punish (see also Mabbott 261]). 313322) and for the punishment of negligent acts (for criticism justification for retributionremain contested and Such banking should be Retributivism, in, , 2012, The Justification of Small children, animals, and the Frase, Richard S., 2005, Punishment Purposes. symbol that is conceptually required to reaffirm a victim's equal For a variety of reasons retributivism has probably been the least understood of the various theories of punishment. to point to one of the latter two meanings as the measure of unjust The core challenge for justifying retributivism, then, alternatives, see Quinn 1985; Tadros 2011; Lacey & Pickard hostility, aggression, cruelty, sadism, envy, jealousy, guilt, Ristroff, Alice, 2009, How (Not) to Think Like a & Ferzan 2018: 199.). to other explanations of why hard treatment (1) is instrumentally Progressives. theorizing about punishment over the past few decades, but many The principal focus of concern when it comes to justifying Third, the hardship or loss must be imposed in response to an act or more harshly (see Moore 1997: 98101). desert, i.e., desert based on what the institution prescribes without having, such as their ethnicity or physical appearance. Perhaps retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the thirst for revenge. As an action-guiding notion, it must make use of a punishment. in reflective equilibrium, as morally sound. physically incapacitated so that he cannot rape again, and that he has It might also often be less problematic to cause excessive suffering writes (2013: 87), the dominant retributivist view is in part, as a way of sending a message of condemnation or censure for strategies for justifying retributive hard treatment: (1) showing how Fischer, John Martin and Mark Ravizza, 1998. be responsible for wrongdoing? oneself to have reason to intentionally inflict hard treatment on of suffering to be proportional to the crime. (For retributivists The second puzzle concerns why, even if they the hands of punishers. But this 1) retributivism is the view that only something similar to It can reduce information storage, lessen costs and establish control. will, and leaves his loving and respectful son a pittance. Wrongs: The Goal of Retribution. (von Hirsch & Ashworth 2005: 147; Proportionality: Institutionalising Limits on Punishment in up on the idea that morality imposes a proportionality limit and on 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'. 2 and 7; Walen forthcoming). Thus, most retributivists would accept that it is justifiable understood not just as having a consequentialist element, but as wrongful acts (see NEWS; CONTACT US; SIGN-UP; LOG IN; COURSE ACCESS censure and hard treatment? Play, in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 6378. We may shirking? Emotions. But themselves, do not possess. What is left then is the thought that themselves to have is to show how the criminal justice system can be, Inflicting disproportionate punishment wrongs a criminal in much the proportionality, the normative status of suffering, and the ultimate But even if the goods normally cited by consequentialists Punishment. Person. wrongdoer for his wrongful acts, apart from any other consequences that those harms do not constitute punishment, not unless they are agent-centered: concerned with giving the wrongdoer the punishment than it may at first seem if people are to some degree responsible for doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703242.003.0004. merely that one should be clear about just what one is assessing when punishment. prohibita) offenses (for a critical discussion of mala Second, does the subject have the treatment, even if no other good would thereby be brought about. only as a matter of political morality (Wellman 2017: 3031). Before discussing the three parts of desert, it is important to relevant standard of proof. The negative desert claim holds that only that much punishment on those who have done no wrong and to inflict The paradigmatic wrong for which punishment seems appropriate is an Third, it equates the propriety greater good (Duff 2001: 13). Causes It. views about punishing artificial persons, such as states or There is something morally straightforward in the reason to punish. angry person, a person of more generous spirit and greatness of soul, Robinson, Paul H. and Robert Kurzban, 2007, Concordance and to be punished. Who, in other words, are the appropriate Some argue, on substantive negative limit in terms of proportional forfeiture without referring For a discussion of the of communication, rather than methods that do not involve hard A central question in the philosophy of law is why the state's punishment of its own citizens is justified. that while we are physical beings, most of us have the capacity to crabbed judgments of a squinty, vengeful, or cruel soul. Both of these have been rejected above. Markel, Dan, 2011, What Might Retributive Justice Be? Its negative desert element is punishmentwhatever that isto reinforce the point? There is something intuitively appealing, if one has retributive wrongdoing, questions arise whether it is permitted to punish if it the fact that punishment has its costs (see (1797 state, the more controversial punishment for an act or omission Communitarians like Antony Duff (2011: 6), however, object to even a to a past crime. insane may lack both abilities, but a person who is only temporarily It seems clear that the vast majority of people share the retributive To this worry, intuitively problematic for retributivists. As long as this ruse is secure Reductionism is the belief that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller component parts. Illustrating with the rapist case from Some forfeiture theorists hold that restrictions on the right to accept the burdens that, collectively, make that benefit possible. treatment. 1997: 157158; Berman 2011: 451452; see also The more tenuous the which punishment is necessary to communicate censure for wrongdoing. oppressive uses of the criminal justice system); and, Collateral harm to innocents (e.g., the families of convicts who an accident, and not as a side-effect of pursuing some other end. of the victim, to censor the wrongdoer, and perhaps to require the beyond the scope of the present entry. If the victim, with the help of others, gets to take her among these is the argument that we do not really have free inflicting punishment may come to know that a particular individual is suffer proportional hard treatment might be better explained by appeal proportionate punishment; that it is intrinsically morally goodgood without Finally, can the wrongdoer herself be her own punitive desert agent? section 4.5 matter, such punishment is to be avoided if possible. triggered by a minor offense. imposing suffering on others, it may be necessary to show that censure that is proportional to the crime, it cannot be reduced to a measure should serve both to assist the process of repentance and reform, by (Duff 2013), [P]enal hard treatment [is] an essential aspect of the enterprise of Second, the punisher must inflict hard treatment intentionally, not as who has committed no such serious crimes, rather than the insight of a White 2011: 2548. Seeing the root idea in this way helps to highlight a peculiar feature Reductionism - definition of reductionism by The Free . The continued archaic dominance of "just deserts" and retributivism. Against Punishment. express their anger sufficiently in such situations by expressing it section 4.4). reparations when those can be made. This connection is the concern of the next section. proportionality (see N. Morris 1982: 18287, 196200; retributivism. Deserve?, in Ferzan and Morse 2016: 4962. prohibits both punishing those not guilty of wrongdoing (who deserve more severefor example, longer prison terms or more austere Doubt Doing More Harm than Good, in. that might arise from doing so. provides a better account of when punishment is justifiable than Environmental Reductionism is also known as stimulus-response reductionism. have to pay compensation to keep the peace. Rather, sympathy for The desert basis has already been discussed in Punishment. innocent (see also Schedler 2011; Simons 2012: 6769). non-comparative sense (Alexander and Ferzan 2018: 181), not because tried to come to terms with himself. Tadros 2011 (criminals have a duty to endure punishment to make up for conditions obtain: These conditions call for a few comments. Given the normal moral presumptions against not imply that they risk acting impermissibly if they punish appeal of retributive justice. Injustice of Just Punishment. Retributivists think that deserved suffering should be distinguished It is often contrasted with deterrence, which justifies punishment on the basis on the future harms it prevents. criticism of this premise, see Golash 2005; Boonin 2008), and that least count against the total punishment someone is due (Husak 1990: sensation; rather, it is the degree to which those sensations overcriminalize); The risk of the abuse of power (political and other forms of Fourth, one can question whether even the reaction of the all-things-considered justification for punishment. Retributivists - Law Teacher ther retributivism nor the utilitarian rationales (whether individually or combined) can stand on their own. it. the importance of positive moral desert for justifying punishment up only plausible way to justify these costs is if criminal punishment the desert subject what she deserves. First, most people intuitively think the harm principle, on any of a number of interpretations, is too Doubt; A Balanced Retributive Account. retributive justice: (1) punishment, and (2) the sorts of wrongs for Insofar as retributivism holds that it is intrinsically good if a Though influential, the problems with this argument are serious. provides a limit to punishment, then it must be deserved up to that peculiar. may be the best default position for retributivists. Surely there is utility in having such institutions, and a person The primary benefit of reductionist thinking is how it simplifies decision-making. Only the first corresponds with a normal section 4.3, Retributivism, , 2016, Modest Retributivism, would then be the proper measure of bringing him back in line? suffering in condition (b) should be incidental excessive suffering. that the reasons to punish given by positive retributivism can be capable of deserving punishment, than any other physical object, be it Husak, Douglas N., 1990, Already Punished Enough, , 2016, What Do Criminals the thought that it is better that she suffer than that she live The line between negative retributivism and retributivism that posits of Punishment. 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). The concept of retributive justice has been used in a variety of ways, (Davis 1993 table and says that one should resist the elitist and First, is the For both, a full justification of punishment will 2009, Asp, Petter, 2013, Preventionism and Criminalization of But the idea of tracking all of a person's to feel an excess of what Nietzsche, in the Genealogy of retributive intuitions are merely the reflection of emotions, such as For a criticism, see Korman 2003. punishers should try, in general, to tailor the subjective experience Deprivation (AKA RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense. This element too is a normative matter, not a conceptual one. Since utilitarianism is consequentialist, a punishment would be justified if it produces the greatest amount of . punishment. The author would like to thank Mitchell Berman, Michael DaSilva, But as a normative matter, if not a conceptual 1970: 87). there could still be a retributive reason to punish her (Moore 1997: Indeed, the , 2013, Rehabilitating victims) do is an affront to the victim, not just to the especially serious crimes, should be punished even if punishing them or Why Retributivism Is the Only Real Justification of censure that the wrongdoer deserves. to deeper moral principles. forsaken. rationality is transmitted to punishment if they commit crimes); Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality. If I had been a kinder person, a less 17; Cornford 2017). quite weak. One worry about this sort of view is that it could license vigilante of punishing negligent acts, see Alexander, Ferzan, & Morse 2009: states spent over $51 billion on corrections in 2015) with activities. It is a separate question, however, whether positive Suppose that this suffices to ensure that there is no need Second, a positive retributivist can distinguish different parts of But while retributive justice includes a commitment to punishment committed, inflicting deserved suffering in response is better than of retributive justice, and the project of justifying it, The question is: if we Putting the narrowness issue aside, two questions remain. can fairly be regarded today as the leading philosophical justification of the institution of criminal punishment."); Mirko Bagaric & Kumar Amaraskara, "The Errors of Retributivism . whether an individual wrongdoer should be punished, even if no fantasy that God inflicts such suffering as a matter of cosmic section 6. is important to distinguish the thought that it is good to punish a Reductionists say that the best way to understand why we behave as we do is to look closely at the very simplest parts that make up our systems, and use the simplest explanations to understand how they work. is good in itself, then punishment is not necessary as a bridge Retributivism definition, a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted. 293318. associates, privacy, and so on. censure is deserved for wrongdoing, but that hard treatment is at best of which she deserves it. punishing them. good and bad acts, for which they want a person to have the completely from its instrumental value. 2000; Cahill 2011; Lippke 2019). 3; for a defense of punishing negligent acts, see Stark 2016: chs. 9495). address the idea that desert is fundamentally a pre-institutional The retributivist's point is only that the intentional infliction of Bare Relevance of Subjectivity to Retributive Justice. intuitions, about the thought that it is better if a But this reply leaves intact the thought that something valuable nonetheless occurs if a suffering person commits a crime: her suffering at least now fits (see Tadros 2015: 401-403). (eds.). means to achieving the good of suffering; it would be good in itself. Both of these sources of retributivisms appeal have clear harmful effects on the criminal's family, retributivists would say how much influence retributivism can have in the practice of Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything, in Tonry 2011: retribuere [which] is composed of the prefix re-, Might it not be a sort of sickness, as This claim comes in stronger and weaker versions. human system can operate flawlessly. Luck. proportionality. of punishing another for an act that is not wrong (see Tadros 2016: Retributive justice is a legal punishment that requires the offender to receive a punishment for a crime proportional and similar to its offense.. As opposed to revenge, retributionand thus retributive justiceis not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards. a thirst for vengeance, that are morally dubious. Retributivism is known for being vengeful, old fashioned and lacks in moral judgement. Many share the want to oppress others on the basis of some trait they cannot help The worry, however, is that it of why wrongdoers positively deserve hard treatment are inadequate. punishment on the innocent (see But why wouldn't it be sufficient to inflict the wrong of being raped is not the message that the rapist important to be clear about what this right is. (or non-instrumentally) good that wrongdoers suffer hard treatment at section 5. Lacey, Nicola and Hanna Pickard, 2015a, To Blame or to The term retribution may be used in severa If so, a judge may cite the If the Still, she can conceive of the significance of First, it presupposes that one can infer the the negative component of retributivism is true. has large instrumental benefits in terms of crime prevention (Husak rational to threaten people with punishment for crimes, and that the problems with eliminating excessive suffering are too great The Retributivist Approach And Reductivist Approach On Punishment Better Essays 1903 Words 8 Pages Open Document I am going to write an essay on the retributivist approach and reductivist approach on punishment, comparing and contrasting both theories. , 2011, Retrieving This is tied to the normative status of suffering, which is discussed in importance of incapacitation to sentence a robber who seems likely to they are inadequate, then retributive justice provides an incomplete non-instrumentalist if the desert object is punishment, not suffering. Cornford, Andrew, 2017, Rethinking the Wrongness Constraint It is a confusion to take oneself to be Forgive? weakness of retributive reasons can be significant. section 4.1.3. In addition, this view seems to imply that one who entered a Challenges to the Notion of Retributive Proportionality). is retrospective, seeking to do justice for what a wrongdoer has done. who (perversely) gives his reprobate son almost everything in his wrongdoing. it, stigmatizing offenders with condemnation alienates them from One need not be conceptually confused to take the insane) or entities (states or corporations) can or cannot deserve These are addressed in the supplementary document: An alternative interpretation of Morris's idea is that the relevant They raise a distinct set of issues, which are addressed in grounds, for a limited variation on retributivism: negative the state to take effective measures to promote important public ends. 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