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Retribution And The Secondary Aims Of Punishment, Gerard V. Bradley
Retribution And The Secondary Aims Of Punishment, Gerard V. Bradley
Gerard V. Bradley
Punishing criminals involves more than visiting unwelcome experiences–the rack, the gallows, confinement, sitting in a corner–upon them. Privations such as these constitute the behavioral substratum, the raw material of punishment. But behaviors such as confinement become the acts that they are, including acts of punishment by confinement, according to the justifying aim(s) which suffuse(s) the behavior. For behaviors such as confinement are ambiguous; limiting another's freedom of movement may be constitutive of a number of different human acts, including quarantine, kidnapping, institutionalization, and imprisonment for crime. Same behavior, different acts. Each of the ends of punishment shapes privations imposed upon …
Law Enforcement And The Separation Of Powers, Gerard V. Bradley
Law Enforcement And The Separation Of Powers, Gerard V. Bradley
Gerard V. Bradley
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