Hadjimatheou, Katerina (2016) Criminal Labelling, Publicity, and Punishment. Law and Philosophy, 35 (6). pp. 567-593. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-016-9274-0
Hadjimatheou, Katerina (2016) Criminal Labelling, Publicity, and Punishment. Law and Philosophy, 35 (6). pp. 567-593. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-016-9274-0
Hadjimatheou, Katerina (2016) Criminal Labelling, Publicity, and Punishment. Law and Philosophy, 35 (6). pp. 567-593. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-016-9274-0
Abstract
This paper considers whether publicizing criminal labels is justified as a form of punishment. It begins by arguing that making criminal labels public is inevitably stigmatizing and that stigmatization is not, as is often implied, a defining aspect of censure, but needs independent justification. It argues that justifying grounds for public criminal labelling cannot be found in either the communicative account of punishment or deterrence theory. Rather, public criminal labelling should be understood as undermining of both the communicative and the deterrent functions of punishment. Recent empirical work is drawn upon to support the claims about public criminal labelling and deterrence.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2018 14:07 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:34 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23246 |
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