A Criminal Law for Citizens
Rather than appealing to penal parsimony as a constraint on the otherwise insatiable demands of the criminal justice system, we should develop a positive account of the proper aims of criminal law which shows parsimony, or moderation, to be integral to those aims. We can do this by developing a repu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Theoretical criminology
Year: 2010 |
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| Summary: | Rather than appealing to penal parsimony as a constraint on the otherwise insatiable demands of the criminal justice system, we should develop a positive account of the proper aims of criminal law which shows parsimony, or moderation, to be integral to those aims. We can do this by developing a republican conception of criminal law as a law that citizens impose on themselves: such a law will be modest in its scope, and will provide a criminal process of trial and punishment that addresses those subjected to it with the respect due to them as citizens |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7439 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1362480610369784 |
