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Nathan, Christopher (2022) Punishment the easy way. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 16 . pp. 77-102. doi:10.1007/s11572-020-09549-2 ISSN 1871-9791.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-020-09549-2
Abstract
Some argue against coercive preventive measures on the grounds that they amount to cloaked forms of punishment. Others offer a qualified defence of such measures on the grounds that such measures have substantively different goals and purposes from punishment. Focusing on the case of civil preventive injunctions, I clear the ground and provide reasons for a third logical possibility: that coercive preventive measures are relevantly similar to punishment, but this does not itself give us a reason to oppose them. ‘Punishment’ has a great deal of rhetorical force, and it thereby distracts us from the justificatory work that we need to do to specify proper restrictions on the state’s coercive powers. Whereas many commentators have proposed that legal theory provides grounds for challenging civil preventive orders, I argue for the opposite view. If we understand properly the function of civil preventive orders, we will endorse them at least in principle, and will come to rethink some central ideas in the grounding of the criminal justice processes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Criminal Law and Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Verlag | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1871-9791 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 16 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 77-102 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11572-020-09549-2 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 September 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 October 2020 | ||||||||
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