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Tomlin, Patrick (2014) Retributivists! The harm principle is not for you! Ethics, 124 (2). pp. 272-298. doi:10.1086/673437 ISSN 0014-1704.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/673437
Abstract
Retributivism is often explicitly or implicitly assumed to be compatible with the harm principle, since the harm principle (in some guises) concerns the content of the criminal law, while retributivism concerns the punishment of those that break the law. In this essay I show that retributivism should not be endorsed alongside any version of the harm principle. In fact, retributivists should reject all attempts to see the criminal law only through “other” person-affecting concepts or “grievance” morality, since they should endorse the criminalization of conduct that is either purely self-harming or good for somebody and bad for nobody (i.e., Pareto improvements).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Punishment -- Philosophy, Retribution, Lex talionis | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ethics | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0014-1704 | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 124 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 272-298 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/673437 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 July 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 July 2018 |
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