Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and
much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless …

This review article argues for a better acknowledgement by penal philosophers of the
diversity of subjects, agents, and practices of punishment. Much current penal philosophy …

Philosophy is not usually seen as a guidance for modern housing policy, but in this new
book, Dr Helen Taylor argues that there is something innovative, unusual, and worth …

This essay is about the difficulties of doing criminal justice in the context of severe social
injustice. Having been marginalized as citizens of the larger community, those who are …

In this article, I discuss a distinctively nonparadigmatic instance of punishment: the
punishment of noncitizens. I shall argue that the punishment of noncitizens presents …

En la filosofía moral se emplean varios argumentos que niegan la legitimidad de un
reproche por motivos que no guardan relación con su objeto (qué se reprocha) o su …

Several writers have argued that the state lacks the moral standing to hold socially deprived
offenders responsible for their crimes because the state would be hypocritical in doing so …

The idea that victims of social injustice who commit crimes ought not to be subject to
punishment has attracted serious attention in recent legal and political philosophy. RA Duff …

In this paper, I defend fairness-based retributivism against two important objections, the no-
benefit objection and the social injustice objection. I argue that the theory can defeat the no …

Duff offered an argument for the conclusion that just or legitimate punishment of socially
deprived offenders in our unjust society is impossible. One of the claims in his argument is …