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Punishment: A coercive imposition - the deprivation of value, in the form…
Punishment: A coercive imposition - the deprivation of value, in the form of money, time, or liberty
The Law
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underpinned/justified by
Consequentialism
When people are dangerous to themselves or others, we restrain them – whether they are children or adults.
Few things are better at conveying what a nation really cares than how it spends its money. On that measure, Americans like to punish.
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Crimes are, at least, socially proscribed wrongs
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a conduit for
Atonement
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what distinguishes punishment from mere ‘penalties’ (see Feinberg 1970*) is their reprobative or condemnatory character.
a species of
Justice
Social Justice
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn have both recently formed campaigns around the issue of social justice; a sentiment reflected by uprisings in the Arab world since 2011 called the Arab Spring
The universal desire for justice makes it plausible to claim that justice is in some sense a natural moral quality
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