Criminal Law

Kolber on Unintentional Punishment
Adam J. Kolber (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Unintentional Punishment (Legal Theory, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Theorists overwhelmingly agree that in order for some conduct to constitute punishment, it must be imposed intentionally...

Kolber on Comparative Punishment
Adam J. Kolber (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted The Comparative Nature of Punishment on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Suppose we punished people by forced poverty. Instead of a traditional dollar fine, we would limit offenders' personal...

Kolber on the Subjective Experience of Punishment
Adam J. Kolber (Princeton University, Center for Human Values) has posted The Subjective Experience of Punishment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Suppose two people commit the same crime and are sentenced to equal terms in the same prison facility...

Kolber blogging on the comparative nature of punishment
Professor Adam Kolber has this new post at PrawfsBlawg talking about his new article, "The Comparative Nature of Punishment" (previously blogged here). This new post concludes this way: The bottom line is this: If we seek to punish offenders in...

On Justifying Punishment
Kevin M. Carlsmith (Colgate University Psychology Department) has posted On Justifying Punishment: The Discrepancy between Words and Actions on SSRN. The article reveals a discrepancy between the actual and stated motives for punishment based on survey data...

Fascinating claims about "Unintentional Punishment"
Professor Adam Kolber, who helped prompt a whole new line of theorizing about punishment through his piece on "The Subjective Experience of Punishment" (blogged here and here), has now up on SSRN this potent follow-up titled "Unintentional Punishment...

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