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dc.contributor.author | Metz, Thaddeus![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Metz, Mika'il![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-30T12:23:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-30T12:23:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | When it comes to the question of how much the state ought to punish a given offender, the standard understanding of the desert theory for centuries has been that it should give him a penalty proportionate to his offense, that is, an amount of punishment that fits the severity of his crime. In this article, we maintain that a desert theorist is not conceptually or otherwise required to hold a proportionality requirement. We show that there is logical space for at least two other, non-proportionate ways of meting out deserved penalties, and we also argue that they have important advantages relative to the dominant, proportionality approach. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | hj2023 | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Metz, T.; Metz, M. How Much Punishment Is Deserved? Two Alternatives to Proportionality. Philosophies 2022, 7, 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7020025. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2409-9287 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/philosophies7020025 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89029 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_US |
dc.subject | Desert | en_US |
dc.subject | Proportionality | en_US |
dc.subject | Punishment | en_US |
dc.subject | Retributivism | en_US |
dc.subject | Sentencing | en_US |
dc.title | How much punishment is deserved? Two alternatives to proportionality | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |