Journal article : Review
Punishing to Send a Message †
- Abstract:
- In Punishment for the Greater Good, Adam Kolber defends consequentialism as a better justification for punishment than retributivism. Here, we reject the dichotomy and seek to motivate expressivism as a genuine alternative. According to expressivism, what justifies punishment is its expression of a fitting message. We show how expressivism can be developed to avoid Kolber's objections to retributivism, while having a number of advantages over his preferred consequentialism.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/ojls/gqaf034
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Oxford Journal of Legal Studies More from this journal
- Article number:
- gqaf034
- Publication date:
- 2025-10-13
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1464-3820
- ISSN:
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0143-6503
- Language:
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English
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Review
- Pubs id:
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2328868
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pubs:2328868
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3365949
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2025-10-13
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