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Capital punishment: a theoretical and cooperative analysis

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Ramos T. C. B.
Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review
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2016
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vol. 6
145-156
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Among all the different types of penalties that exist in the various juridical systems around the world, capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is one of the most controversial ones. The discussion about its legitimacy and legality crosses social, philosophical, cultural, religious and historical fields. The present article aims to first analyze how capital punishment is treated in different parts of the world, whether it is present or not, and to later on focus on the attempts to justify such a harsh punishment, by both the retributive and utilitarian theories of punishment.
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O znaczeniu fundamentalnych zasad karania w polityce karnej — uwagi na tle przyczyn i skutków „masowego uwięzienia” w Stanach Zjednoczonych

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Stańdo-Kawecka B.
Nowa kodyfikacja prawa karnego
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2017
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vol. 43
509-522
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In the last century, in the United States, there was a significant change in the paradigms of punishment. In the 1970s the ideology of rehabilitation collapsed and reforms, which aimed at restoring justice in punishment and reduction of the prison population, were initiated. In the next decade, the movement aiming at liberal reforms lost the social and political support and was replaced with the repressive criminal policy. At the same time, a rapid increase in the prison population started which has been referred to in the criminological literature as the phenomenon of mass incarceration. After four decades of continuous growth in the number of persons deprived of their liberty there is no doubt that the social and financial consequences of a repressive system of punishment proved to be dramatic. For this reason, issues concerning the restoration of justice and rationality in punishment have again been discussed in the United States. Many European countries also experienced the “punitive turn” in the criminal policy at the end of the 20th century, although its scale was incomparable with what happened in the United States. It does not mean, however, that American discussions on the philosophy of punishment and criminal policy are irrelevant for Europe. Multidimensional negative effects of the American policy of mass incarceration indicate the dangers resulting from ignoring the basic principles of punishment that protect against abuses of the state’s power to punish. Additionally, they encourage a serious discussion about the integration of punishment theories with the empirical knowledge on the results of sentencing and sentence enforcement.
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Retributivism, Consequentialism, and the Risk of Punishing the Innocent: The Troublesome Case of Proxy Crimes

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Bystranowski P.
Diametros
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2017
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issue 53
26-49
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This paper discusses differences between two major schools in philosophy of criminal law, retributivism and consequentialism, with regard to the risk of (unintentionally) punishing the innocent. As it is argued, the main point of departure between these two camps in this respect lies in their attitude towards the high evidentiary threshold in a criminal trial: while retributivism seems to strongly support setting this standard high, consequentialists may find it desirable to relax it in some cases. This discussion is set in the context of proxy criminalization, i.e. a situation, in which some suspicious behaviour (i.e. behaviour that is only in some correlation with wrongful conduct, while not being substantially wrongful in itself) is criminalized. Since proxy criminalization may be understood as an effective lowering of the evidentiary threshold, its employment is justifiable from the consequentialist perspective, while being highly problematic for the retributivists.
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Toward New Focus on Retributive Justice. Reflections on Background of Passive Subject of Crime

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Smarzewski M.
Roczniki Nauk Prawnych
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2015
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vol. 25
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issue 4
69-90
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W artykule podjęto próbę nowego spojrzenia na retrybutywizm. Punkt wyjścia dla prezentowanej idei stanowi koncepcja biernego podmiotu przestępstwa. Wydaje się bowiem, że retrybutywizm wobec wyczerpania środków do jego argumentacji wymaga nowej podbudowy. Stąd postuluje się zestawienie teorii retrybutywnego karania z koncepcją podkreślającą znaczenie ofiary przestępstwa w jej materialnoprawnym ujęciu. Prawo karne potrzebuje uzasadnienia dla publicznej reakcji, którą stanowi kara z uwzględnieniem pomiotu biernego, tj. tego, czyje dobra prawne, będące przedmiotem ochrony norm prawa karnego materialnego, zostały bezpośrednio naruszone lub zagrożone przez przestępstwo. To ofiara cierpi wskutek przestępstwa i dlatego też wymaga szczególnego podejścia, zwłaszcza ze strony odpowiednich organów państwowych. Jednocześnie jest ona podmiotem, który może posiadać istotne znaczenie w kontekście ustalenia tego, na co sprawca zasługuje, także w perspektywie sądowego wymiaru kary. Ofiara przestępstwa jest więc istotnym czynnikiem, abstrahując nawet od kompensacyjnej funkcji prawa karnego. Kluczowe miejsce w tym kontekście zajmuje koncepcja biernego podmiotu przestępstwa, która może zostać zestawiona spójnie z retrybutywizmem. Nie jest ona bowiem względem niego teorią sprzeczną, a wręcz przeciwnie, w wielu aspektach pozostaje z nią zbieżna i stanowi istotne dopełnienie, niejednokrotnie kluczowe dla uzasadnienia sensu retrybutywnego karania.
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This paper supports the attempt undertaken by its author to take a fresh look at criminal justice in relation to retributivism and conceptual framework of a passive subject of a crime is the starting point for any related consideration, for it seems that retributivism needs new grounds when measures of argument strength are no longer feasible. Therefore, it is postulated to juxtapose the theory of retributive punishment with a victim of a crime in its substantive perspective. However, the criminal law requires reasonable grounds for public response being punishment, not losing sight of a subject whose legal goods are protected by norms of the criminal law but have been directly infringed or imperilled by an offence. After all, it is a victim who suffers in effect of an offence, thus requiring a special approach, especially on the part of relevant public authorities. At the same time, a victim is a subject who may be significant in the context of determination of what an offender deserves, and therefore in the perspective of judicial punishment, too. So, a victim is an important factor, even if we disregard the compensation function of the criminal law. The conceptual framework of a passive subject of a crime, that may be consistently juxtaposed with retributivism, has been specifically highlighted in this paper. This conceptual framework is not contradictory to retributivism, on the contrary, in many respects it is consistent with retributivism and serves the grounds for retributive punishment.
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Negatywne konsekwencje imperializmu ekonomii na przykładzie ekonomicznej analizy prawa karnego

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Żuk A. J.
Przegląd Prawno-Ekonomiczny
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2021
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issue 4
135-155
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The aim of the work has been to show the negative effects of economics imperialism in the area of criminal law, on the theoretical and practical levels. The manifestation of this type of imperialism is the economic analysis of criminal law, based on an economic and utilitarian approach. The theoretical part shows the limitations of the two main pillars of the economic analysis of law: the instrumental (calculational) rationality of an individual and the economic (utilitarian) effectiveness of law, against the background of the traditional theory of criminal law (retributivism). Then, in the practical part, the economically motivated postulate of legalizing drugs has been opposed, demonstrating the weaknesses of such arguments and presenting an alternative, although also economically well-grounded, scenario of negative social and economic consequences of the end of drug prohibition.
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Celem pracy było ukazanie negatywnych skutków imperializmu ekonomii w obszarze prawa karnego, na płaszczyźnie teoretycznej i praktycznej. Przejawem tego imperializmu jest ekonomiczna analiza prawa karnego opierająca się na podejściu ekonomicznym i utylitarnym. W części teoretycznej ukazano ograniczenia dwóch głównych filarów ekonomicznej analizy prawa: racjonalności instrumentalnej (kalkulacyjnej) jednostki oraz efektywności ekonomicznej (utylitarnej) działania prawa, na tle tradycyjnej teorii prawa karnego (retrybutywizmu). Następnie w części praktycznej przeciwstawiono się ekonomicznie motywowanemu postulatowi legalizacji narkotyków, wykazując słabości takiej argumentacji oraz przedstawiając alternatywny, choć również ugruntowany ekonomicznie, scenariusz negatywnych konsekwencji społecznych i ekonomicznych końca prohibicji narkotykowej.
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