Journal article
What's wrong with prepunishment?
- Abstract:
- Punishing someone for a crime before they have committed it is widely considered morally abhorrent. But there is little agreement on what exactly is supposed to be wrong with it. In this paper, I critically evaluate several objections to the permissibility of prepunishment, making points along the way about the connections between time, knowledge, desert, deterrence and duty. I conclude that, although the conditions under which it could permissibly be administered are unlikely ever to arise in practice, nevertheless in principle, nothing is wrong with prepunishment after all.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 398.9KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/papq.12435
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Pacific Philosophical Quarterly More from this journal
- Volume:
- 104
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 622-645
- Publication date:
- 2023-03-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-11-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-0114
- ISSN:
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0279-0750
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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1315536
- Local pid:
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pubs:1315536
- Deposit date:
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2023-02-21
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- Copyright holder:
- University of Southern California and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 University of Southern California and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papq.12435
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