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- adjective Relating to the
philosophy of law ofretributivism . - noun A person who holds to
retributivism .
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Along with the stress and negativity associated with the work of imposing repressive, explicitly "retributivist" state punishment on those mostly male and very disparately poor black Americans, this selective exposure to the black community certainly tends to reinforce and expand racist sentiments in rural white America.
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Along with the stress and negativity associated with the work of imposing repressive, explicitly "retributivist" state punishment on those mostly male and very disparately poor black Americans, this selective exposure to the black community certainly tends to reinforce and expand racist sentiments in rural white America.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: January 2006 Archives 2006
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This strictly incapacitationist view of prisons incorporates most (if not all) of the legitimate retributivist goals of prisons aswell.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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This strictly incapacitationist view of prisons incorporates most (if not all) of the legitimate retributivist goals of prisons aswell.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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If we have a retributivist, a "justice" based account (of the sort Paul Robinson favors, and that I'm also pretty partial to), or a deterrence account, we surely need to consider mental states of the actors to get our desired result, but we don't get this with the sort of strict liability approach you mention here, I think.
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This strictly incapacitationist view of prisons incorporates most if not all of the legitimate retributivist goals of prisons aswell.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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This strictly incapacitationist view of prisons incorporates most if not all of the legitimate retributivist goals of prisons aswell.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape 2010
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I will not discuss the third objection here, since it belongs with the discussion of criminal punishment (see Legal Punishment ss. 2, 7): but we will see that the familiar consequentialist and retributivist models for the justification of punishment have analogues in accounts of the proper aims of criminal law more generally.
Theories of Criminal Law Duff, Antony 2008
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All can be understood, however, as attempting to answer the two central questions faced by any retributivist theory of punishment.
Legal Punishment Duff, Antony 2008
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Kant was long considered to be an exemplar of the retributivist theory of punishment.
Kant's Social and Political Philosophy Rauscher, Frederick 2007
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