Retributive justice

deficits in mental time travel diminish moral responsibility, which will necessarily rest on a number of controversial premises, I focus on how these deficits might diminish legal responsibility, specifically, the penological justification for retributive punishment. I argue that if we hold psychopaths fully blameworthy for harming others, then we are legally obligated to hold juveniles fully blameworthy for harming others. Juveniles and psychopaths share many of the same neurological deficits…

rehabilitation would be sending a drug user to a treatment center to get help and detox off the drug. “Theories punishment can be divided into two general philosophies utilitarian and retributive. The utilitarian theory of punishment seeks to punish offenders to discourage or “deter” future wrongdoing. The retributive theory seeks to punish offenders because they deserve to be punished.”(Theories of…

In addition, Titus Andronicus due to a cyclical form of retaliation, the text complies to the concept of retributive justice as each character ultimately receives a punishment that is adequate to the severity of their crimes. To begin, Roman “soldier [of] forty years” (1.1.196), Titus is initially depicted as a “cruel, irreligious piety” (1.1.133) as he is “unkind” (1.1.89) signifying he is “lacking in kindness or kindly feeling; [or] acting harshly or urgently” (OED 6a). I believe Titus must be…

Under this theory, offenders are punished on a basis of what they “deserve” for the crime they committed. It is to say that criminal behavior upsets the peaceful balance of society, and punishment helps to restore the balance. The retributive theory concentrates on the crime itself as the explanation behind imposing punishment. Where the utilitarian theory looks forward…

conception of Desert (in contemporary Liberal theory) asymmetrical in the contexts of Distributive and Retributive Justice, especially Criminal Law, keeping in mind the perspective of Rawls? One can argue that the nature of Criminal Law is such that it is usually seen as a ‘state institution in charge of state punishment’ – its scope, apparatus and effects are determined by the principles of Retributive Justice set up by the society. The Criminal Law is not made up of monads calling for…

The Revenge Cycle In ancient Greece, retributive justice served as both a strict societal code and an expectation of the cosmos. In The Eumenides by Aeschylus, the Furies serve as the defenders of this justice, which is explored in depth during the Furies’ monologue as they pursue Orestes for his matricide. In order to understand this passage fully, the reader must first grasp the Furies’ sense of justice. To these beings, justice is rooted in the ancient laws that require equal retribution…

Plato gives his main ideas on justice in his book Politea which can be considered as a book about justice providing an ideal model and organization of the ideal state. In the first book, Plato deals with the meaning of justice. Considering the answers that he got from his friends, such as justice is giving each man what he owns or justice is the advantage of the stronger, he presented arguments in favor of justice by examining the injustice; unjust man is ignorant, injustice produces internal…

A city is never going to be perfect. You will always have the criminals that take justice into their own hands or those that take over the city without being just to the people, for example the government. They take over the poor who are known as the minority and they strip them from their labor earnings through taxes. The reenact the robber barons in the 19th century although they are not unethically tormenting they are breaking this class down.We see this every where in our country and its…

If Justice Is Achieved by Everyone Justice is defined at various levels. The United States’ federal republic attempts to define it with its judicial branch and court system through retributive justice, with a complex organization of punishments. Mankind articulates justice using the tit-for-tat mantra; that nearly every religion has its own version the Golden Rule. Justice is ultimately interpreted by every individual and carried out by his or her conscience. It is because justice is…

According to Kent Greenwalt (1983), both retributive, as well as the utilitarian perspective in relation to justification of societal punishments were prevailing methodologies. First, the main justifications for punishment using the retributive perspective were that punishment was in place due to the offender deserving to be punished for a specific wrongdoing. Greenwalt states that there is a simple justification for using this perspective, if there is an offender who has violated the law that…