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"Retribution and the Experience of Punishment"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this new forthcoming article from Professors John Bronsteen Christopher Buccafusco and Jonathan Masur that is now available via SSRN. It looks like the latest must-read for those interested in punishment theory and subjective punishment experiences.  Here is the abstract: In a prior article, we argued that punishment theorists need to take into account the counterintuitive findings from hedonic psychology about how offenders typically experience punishment.  Punishment generally involves the imposition of negative experience.  The reason that greater fines and prison sentences constitute more severe punishments than lesser ones is, in large part, that they are assumed to impose greater negative experience...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).