Criminal punishment and its justification from an interdisciplinary perspective
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Resumen: Penal punishment implies using the force of the State to harm someone. In the case of prisons, not only does it mean depriving a person of her freedom, but also implies a violent and degrading act, not just for the offender, but also for her family. How can we, as a society, justify penal p...
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| Format: | Artículo de Investigación |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Facultad de Derecho, UNAM
2012
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Facultad de Derecho |
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| Summary: | Resumen: Penal punishment implies using the force of the State to harm someone. In the case of prisons, not only does it mean depriving a person of her freedom, but also implies a violent and degrading act, not just for the offender, but also for her family. How can we, as a society, justify penal punishment? This article raises the question of whether criminal punishment (particularly the use of prisons) can meet the goals that Consecuentialist and Retributive theories of criminal punishment offer as justifications for the use of criminal punishment. |
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