[lbo-talk] A Note on the Middle 75%

[// ravi]

On Nov 19, 2011, at 6:53 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> 
> But I think there is one more division perhaps. I think justin (andie)
> used to articulate this view: that there has to be punishment, a form
> of vengeance, where the state acts on behalf of the victims to exact
> the same kind of harm on the criminal that the criminal has inflicted
> on both society and the victims. The vengeance view isn't about
> teaching lessons. The idea is that the criminal can't be taught a
> lesson and it doesn't matter if punishment deters - only that the
> criminal is made to suffer.

Yes, I think Andie has defended or espoused “retributivism” in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retributive_justice, http://law.jrank.org/pages/1958/Retributivism.html

	—ravi