Publication details
Trest jako věc veřejná
| Title in English | Punishment as a Matter of Public Interest |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Filozofie dnes |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://filosofiednes.ff.uhk.cz/index.php/hen/index |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | punishment; republicanism; liberalism |
| Description | The practice of punishment commonly includes what traditionally has been called suffering and it calls for a justification. We can provide a retributive justification, claiming that offenders deserve to suffer for their crimes, or consequentialist justification, that we should punish in order to deter crime, incapacitate or rehabilitate offenders. We aim to inflict equal punishment for the same crime, but different people may experience the same punishment with differing intensity. Moreover, the very concept of sanction can be understood in different ways, in the narrow economical sense as a price for a wrong, or in moralistic terms as an emotionally collored appeal to offender’s conscience. |