Hybrid Theories of Punishment (original) (raw)

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment, 2021

Abstract

This chapter aims to help resuscitate scholarly interest in hybrid approaches to the justification of punishment. I discuss the diversity of ways in which different moral considerations might be brought together into at least prima facie plausible hybrid views. I then address three general lines of objection to hybrid strategies. The first claims that in standard hybrid accounts, retributivism is relegated to too minor a role. The second contends that crime reductive and retributivist perspectives yield incompatible pictures of those subjected to punishment. And the third raises concerns about the strategy itself of disaggregating the problem of punishment’s justification into multiple questions. I contend that none of these objections gives us good reason to abandon the hybrid approach to justifying punishment.

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