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All For One: A Review Of Victim-Centric Justifications For Criminal Punishment, Adam J. Macleod
All For One: A Review Of Victim-Centric Justifications For Criminal Punishment, Adam J. Macleod
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Disparate understandings of the primary justification for criminal punishment have in recent years divided along new lines. Retributivists and consequentialists have long debated whether a community ought to punish violators of legal norms primarily because the violator has usurped communal standards (the retributivist view), or rather merely as a means toward some end such as rehabilitation or deterrence (the consequentialist view). The competing answers to this question have demarcated for some time the primary boundary in criminal jurisprudential thought.
A new fault line appears to have opened between those who maintain the historical view that criminal punishment promotes the common …