Repentance, Mercy, and Communicative Punishment

Jeffrie G. Murphy

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Repentance, Mercy, and Communicative Punishment

Jeffrie G. Murphy

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This chapter challenges Antony Duff's claim that mercy given because of offender repentance is a value extrinsic to criminal punishment and, except perhaps in very rare cases, has no bearing on retributive desert - a core concept in Duff's communicative theory of punishment. It explores several senses of retributive desert and argues that offender repentance is intrinsic to all of them.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility
Subtitle of host publication	The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191729034
ISBN (Print)	9780199592814
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592814.003.0002
State	Published - Sep 22 2011

Keywords

Communicative punishment
Mercy
Remorse
Repentance
Retribution
Sentencing

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General Social Sciences

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