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TWO APPARENT PARADOXES ABOUT JUSTICE AND THE SEVERITY OF PUNISHMENT
Author(s) -
Smilansky Saul
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.1992.tb00641.x
Subject(s) - punishment (psychology) , conviction , economic justice , face (sociological concept) , criminology , law and economics , psychology , law , political science , social psychology , sociology , social science
The idea of Mitigation incorporates the conviction that though the amount or severity of punishment is primarily to be determined by reference to the General Aim, yet Justice requires that those who have special difficulties to face in keeping the law which they have broken should be punished less.