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- The primary goal of retribution is to ensure that punishments are proportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed, regardless of the individual differences between offenders. Thus, retribution focuses on the past offense, rather than the offender. This can be phrased as “a balance of justice for past harm.”
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The primary goal of retribution is to ensure that punishments are proportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed, regardless of the individual differences between offenders. Thus, retribution focuses on the past offense, rather than the offender.
7.2 Retribution David Carter; Kate McLean; and Michelle Holcomb. Retribution. Retribution, is the only ideology that that is “backward-looking,” or focused on the past offense. The term “backward-looking” means that the punishment does not address anything in the future, only the past harm done.
- RETRIBUTION: THE CENTRAL AIM OF PUNISHMENT
- HarvardJournal of Law & Public Policy
- Retribution: The CentralAim of Punishment
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- Retribution: The CentralAim of Punishment
- Retribution: The Central Aim of Punishment
GERARD V. BRADLEY When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences were consistently and dramatically too lenient. Though those years marked the ebb tide for the rehabilitative ideal of punishment and indeterminate "zip-to-ten" sentences, only career felons and those convicted of the most serious cri...
[Vol. 27 incapacitation are not adequate bases for sentencing those convicted of crimes. Neither, ultimately, is rehabilitation. These goals may contribute to a sound account of punishment-they may be secondary aims of punishment-but none can, on its own, morally justify punishment.3 Only retribution, a concept consistently misunderstood or entirel...
21 literally, but I doubt that any has actually done so consistently. Rather, societies typically deprive criminals of human resources-time, limb, life, or money-which have no relation to the particular criminal harm. More primitive societies impose the universal privations of pain and humiliation upon criminals regardless of their crimes. In any e...
punishments for a given crime. Legislative and judicial authorities necessarily (and rightly) make the important choices in sentencing about fairness and proportionality, governed by a sense of the sentence's aptness to the crime and its coherent position within the global pattern of possible sentences. In other words, while moral reflection can te...
23 the exact form that fair cooperation with others should take; they make general moral obligations concrete and explicit. "Drive in an orderly, consideration fashion" therefore includes an obligation to yield to cars and pedestrians in the right of way. Further, the law tells people how to determine who has the right of way under certain conditio...
29 scapegoating as punishment at all, for by hypothesis they know that the individual being sacrificed has done nothing wrong. Passing it off as punishment necessarily involves deception, for the scapegoat would have to be declared "guilty" of the heinous act about which the citizenry is enraged. The scapegoat is thus not selected fairly or reasona...
- Gerard V. Bradley
- 2003
Definition Of Retribution In Criminal Justice. Retribution is at the heart of just about all judicial systems that deal with law and order. To the extent that punishment is supposed to fit the crime, retributive justice can be distinguished from revenge in the sense that defendants are expected to give up something in return for the offenses ...
Retributive justice, response to criminal behaviour that focuses on the punishment of lawbreakers and the compensation of victims. In general, the severity of the punishment is proportionate to the seriousness of the crime. Retribution appears alongside restorative principles in law codes from the.
- Jon'a F. Meyer
Retribution. Retribution prevents future crime by removing the desire for personal avengement (in the form of assault, battery, and criminal homicide, for example) against the defendant. When victims or society discover that the defendant has been adequately punished for a crime, they achieve a certain satisfaction that our criminal procedure ...
Retributivism, the idea that what justifies criminal punishment is that it is deserved for past criminal wrongdoing, famously (or notoriously) underwent a revival in the 1970s—a revival whose influence is still evident both in penal philosophy and in penal policy.
