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: Legal Theory BlogKohler-Hausmann on Capital Punishment for Child Rape
By Lawrence Solum
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Issa Kohler-Hausmann (Yale University) has posted Ordinal Proportionality in Punishment: A Case against Capital Punishment for Child Rape Under the Eighth Amendment on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This article argues that various theories of justice in punishment adhere to a principle of ordinal proportionality - relative grading of penalties in measure to the relative severity of the crimes for which they are imposed. Ordinal proportionality is a demand of both deterrence and retributive theories read more
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 21, 2008 (boomark / email).
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