The age-old debate among criminal law theoreticians over whether desert or prevention ought to drive criminal justice has taken on a new cast during the past few years. The old …
This article reveals and responds to the democracy deficit in certain retributivist approaches to criminal law. Democracy deficits arise when we insufficiently respect the moral authority of …
RA Bierschbach, S Bibas - Mich. L. Rev., 2013 - HeinOnline
In the late twentieth century, the Supreme Court largely restricted constitutional sentencing law to capital cases, proclaiming that under the Eighth Amendment," death is different."'But …
The topic of mens rea has historically played a foundational role in both motivating and guiding criminal code reform efforts. For example, the centerpiece of the most influential …
J Bowers, PH Robinson - Wake Forest Law Review, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
A growing literature on procedural fairness suggests that there is practical value in enhancing a criminal justice system's" legitimacy" with the community it governs by adopting …
M Lowenstein - Internet Journal of Criminology, 2016 - eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk
The judicial response to the riot context via their sentencing remarks has an important, yet hitherto unexplained emotive meaning. It would appear that such remarks have repeatedly …
SW Howe - Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J., 2013 - HeinOnline
ABSTRACT Should the Eighth Amendment prohibit all undeserved criminal convictions and punishments? There are grounds to argue that it must. Correlation between the level of …
According to empirical desert theory, good utilitarian grounds exist for distributing criminal punishment pursuant to the (retributive) intuitions of the lay community on criminal liability …
Y Lee - Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection, 2023 - HeinOnline
A recent article, Preventing Undeserved Punishment, by Marah Stith McLeod begins with a reminder of some current problems with criminal law and punishment in our society, such as …