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Play Fair With Recidivists, Richard Dagger
Play Fair With Recidivists, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Retributivists thus face a difficult challenge. Either we must go against the social grain, and perhaps our own intuitions, by insisting that a criminal offense carry the same penalty or punishment no matter how many previous convictions an offender has accrued; or we must find a way to justify the recidivist premium. I shall take the second route here by arguing that recidivism itself is a kind of criminal offense. In developing this argument, I shall rely on Youngjae Lee's insightful analysis of "recidivism as omission." I shall complement his analysis, however, by grounding it in a conception of criminal …
Playing Fair With Prisoners, Richard Dagger
Playing Fair With Prisoners, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Oddness aside, however, I think there is much to recommend the attempt to restore rehabilitation to a central place in the practice of punishment. Nor do I think that rehabilitation must displace retribution in that practice. Properly understood, the two aims are not only compatible but also complementary. If we are to understand them properly, though, we shall need to see them as components of a theory of punishment that is grounded in considerations of fair play. Such a theory also has the advantage of offering guidance with regard to other controversial matters of penal policy, such as the question …
Managing The Socially Marginalized: Attitudes Towards Welfare, Punishment And Race, Darren Wheelock, Pamela Wald, Yakov Shchukin
Managing The Socially Marginalized: Attitudes Towards Welfare, Punishment And Race, Darren Wheelock, Pamela Wald, Yakov Shchukin
Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications
Welfare and incarceration policies have converged to form a system of governance over socially marginalized groups, particularly racial minorities. In both of these policy areas, rehabilitative and social support objectives have been replaced with a more punitive and restrictive system. The authors examine the convergence in individual-level attitudes concerning welfare and criminal punishment, using national survey data. The authors' analysis indicates a statistically significant relationship between punitive attitudes toward welfare and punishment. Furthermore, accounting for the respondents' racial attitudes explains the bivariate relationship between welfare and punishment. Thus, racial attitudes seemingly link support for punitive approaches to opposition to welfare …
Book Review, Samuel W. Buell
How (Not) To Implement Cost As A Sentencing Factor, Ryan W. Scott
How (Not) To Implement Cost As A Sentencing Factor, Ryan W. Scott
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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