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Review of A du Bois-Pedain and A Bottoms, eds., Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory

Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics. Oxford: Hart (2019) 328 pp

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Notes

  1. von Hirsch, A, Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments. New York: Hill and Wang (5).

  2. Censure has not always dominated the field. It was preceded by utilitarian accounts of punishment: see, eg, Bedau, HA, ‘Bentham’s Theory of Punishment: Origin and Content’ (1) Journal of Bentham Studies 7.

  3. See, eg, Hart’s general justifying aim of punishment, which has important parallels with von Hirsch’s censure: Hart, HLA, ‘Prolegomenon to the Principles of Punishment’ (2) 60 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (New Series) 1.

  4. Chapter 2.

  5. Smith, A, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (4) DD Raphael and AL MacFie, eds. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund (4).

  6. Lacey, N, The Prisoners’ Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (The Hamlyn Lectures). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (3).

  7. Above note 5.

  8. Walen, A, ‘Retributive Justice’ in EN Zalta, ed., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (6). Available at:

     <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/justice-retributive/>.

  9. Chapter 8.

  10. Watson, G, Respect and Criminal Justice. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (7).

  11. Chapter 12.

  12. See, eg, R v GB [8] EWCA Crim 1501 and discussed by du Bois-Pedain at pp. 232–33, in which the court deemed it appropriate to impose a mild non-custodial sentence for sexual offences committed by a 67-year-old some fifty years earlier. The offender had expressed remorse and lived an exemplary life of compliance with the law ever since.

References

  • Bedau, HA, ‘Bentham’s Theory of Punishment: Origin and Content’ (2004) Journal of Bentham Studies 7.

  • R v GB [2015] EWCA Crim 1501.

  • Hart, HLA, ‘Prolegomenon to the Principles of Punishment’ (1960) 60 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (New Series) 1.

  • Lacey, N, The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (The Hamlyn Lectures). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008).

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  • Smith, A, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) DD Raphael and AL MacFie, eds. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund (1982).

  • von Hirsch, A, Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments. New York: Hill and Wang (1976).

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  • Walen, A, ‘Retributive Justice’ in EN Zalta, ed., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021). Available at: <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/justice-retributive/>.

  • Watson, G, Respect and Criminal Justice. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (2020).

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Watson, G. Review of A du Bois-Pedain and A Bottoms, eds., Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory. Criminal Law, Philosophy 16, 417–422 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-021-09604-6

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