Moral Cognition in Criminal Punishment

Scholars often appeal to Kant in defending a retributivist view of criminal punishment. In this paper, I join other scholars in rejecting this interpretation as insufficiently attentive to Kant's wider theory of justice, particularly as found in the Rechtslehre, a section of the Metaphysics of...

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Main Author: Steffen Jason R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-05-01
Series:British Journal of American Legal Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2020-0002