Premium
Punishment: The Future
Author(s) -
Wood David
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00289.x
Subject(s) - punishment (psychology) , sociology of punishment , consequentialism , element (criminal law) , criminology , institution , psychology , law and economics , sociology , political science , social psychology , law , criminal law
A companion to ‘Punishment: Consequentialism’ and ‘Punishment: Nonconsequentialism’, which examine attempts to justify punishment as a state institution, this paper considers possible alternatives to punishment. On the assumption that there are two elements to punishment, an element of condemnation and of hard treatment, the paper considers, first, the alternative of condemnation without hard treatment, and secondly, of hard treatment without condemnation. The paper then looks ahead to possible developments in thinking and theorising about punishment.