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Article Dans Une Revue Criminal Justice Ethics Année : 2022

The Varieties of Attitudes Towards Offenders

Nicolas Nayfeld

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I argue that penal philosophy should focus more on our attitudes towards offenders, since these attitudes can shed new light on theories or principles of punishment (of which they are often expressions) and also play a significant role in changing the face of criminal justice. Building on Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment,” I define attitudes as certain ways of seeing human beings that logically include or exclude various emotional, behavioral, and linguistic responses, that can be more or less natural, and over which we have some degree of voluntary control. I argue that, understood in this sense, there are broadly speaking six attitudes towards offenders: the retributive, the hostile, the moralistic, the paternalistic, the merciful, and the actuarial. After presenting each of these attitudes, I sum up my analysis by focusing on the Polanski sexual abuse case. I then introduce the concept of second-order attitudes, where egalitarianism is the attitude that consists of taking the same attitude towards all offenders, and particularism is the attitude that consists of adjusting your attitude to each offender. Finally, I briefly explain why a mix of the retributive and the merciful should be our default attitude.
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hal-03847414 , version 1 (17-01-2023)

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Nicolas Nayfeld. The Varieties of Attitudes Towards Offenders. Criminal Justice Ethics, 2022, 41 (2), pp.95-120. ⟨10.1080/0731129X.2022.2101591⟩. ⟨hal-03847414⟩

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