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Republican Theory and Criminal Punishment

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Suppose we embrace the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination: freedom as immunity to arbitrary interference. In that case those acts that call uncontroversially for criminalization will usually be objectionable on three grounds: the offender assumes a dominating position in relation to the victim, the offender reduces the range or ease of undominated choice on the part of the victim, and the offender raises a spectre of domination for others like the victim. And in that case, so it appears, the obvious role for punishment will be, so far as possible, to undo such evils: to rectify the effects of the crime that make it a repugnant republican act. This paper explores this theory of punishment as rectification, contrasting it with better established utilitarian and retributivist approaches.

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  • Pettit, Philip, 1997. "Republican Theory and Criminal Punishment," Utilitas, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(1), pages 59-79, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:utilit:v:9:y:1997:i:01:p:59-79_00
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    1. Dorothea Gädeke, 2021. "Who should fight domination? Individual responsibility and structural injustice," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 20(2), pages 180-201, May.
    2. Fitzpatrick Tony, 2010. "Basic Income, Post-Productivism and Liberalism," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 4(2), pages 1-11, September.

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