Thumbs Up for Retribution: Capital Punishment, Neuroscience, and Culture
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Authors
Snell, Jacob
Issue Date
2022
Type
Article
Language
en_US
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Abstract
The American criminal justice system does not exist apart from society; how we conceive
criminality and how we punish criminals institutionalizes certain philosophical assumptions and
intuitions about human nature and free will. Philosophical justifications for punishment can be
bifurcated into the consequentialist and deontological ethical categories, the former including
utilitarian rationales such as deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation, and the latter theories
of retribution (retributive justice).
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This is one of two 3rd place winners in the FODL Undergraduate Student Writing Contest